CVE-2020-15518
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has...
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has no device object DACL, which allows unprivileged users to achieve total control over filesystem I/O requests.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has no device object DACL, which allows unprivileged users to achieve total control over filesystem I/O requests.
- Record
CVE-2020-15518- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 6.5 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has no device object DACL, which allows unprivileged users to achieve total control over filesystem I/O requests.
- Record
CVE-2020-15518- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-7506 No score
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has no device object DACL, which allows unprivileged users to achieve total control over filesystem I/O requests.
- Record
EUVD-2020-7506- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6qmr-c25c-w299
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has...
VeeamFSR.sys in Veeam Availability Suite before 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication before 10 has no device object DACL, which allows unprivileged users to achieve total control over filesystem I/O requests.
- Record
GHSA-6qmr-c25c-w299- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-15518 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) in Veeam Availability Suite, published July 3, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.99%, the 62nd percentile. No source names a fixed version.