This vulnerability in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows allows for Local Privilege Escalation if a system administrator is tricked into restoring a malicious file.
PUBLISHED5.2
Affected products
Veeam
Agent for Microsoft Windows
<= 4.7.2 - AFFECTED
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