Challenge
This article describes all security-related fixes and improvements introduced in each release or update of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.
Cause
The goal of this article is to provide our customers' security and compliance teams with the detailed information on security improvements between releases, in order to help them make an informed decision on whether it is critical to upgrade from their current Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows version to a latter one.
Solution
4.0.1.2169
- No security related changes.
4.0.0.1811
- A custom security descriptor was provided for the driver's control device (vulnerability reported by Mile Karry).
- Deserialization issues were fixed (vulnerability reported by Harrison Neal).
- A user authorization issue was fixed (vulnerability reported by Harrison Neal).
- OpenSSL was updated to version 1.0.2t
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