Veritas System Recovery (VSR) 18 and 21 stores a network destination password in the Windows registry during configuration of the backup configuration. This could allow a Windows user (who has sufficient privileges) to access a network file system that they were not authorized to access.
Weakness
The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| System_recovery | Veritas | 18.0 (including) | 18.0 (including) |
| System_recovery | Veritas | 21 (including) | 21 (including) |