CVE-2022-26778: Veritas System Recovery

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Veritas System Recovery: version 18.0 only; version 21 only

Published 2022-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.