A vulnerability in the Veeam Updater component of the Veeam Software Appliance that could allow a local user to elevate their privileges and gain root-level access to the underlying operating system.
CVE-2026-56844
This high-severity CVE scores 8.4 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 97% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.4
- EG Score
- 8.4(medium)
- EPSS
- 2.9%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 22, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 22, 2026KB4879: Veeam Software Appliance/Veeam Infrastructure Appliance — Updater Component Vulnerability
https://www.veeam.com/kb4879Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56844(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 8× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-22 15:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 15:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-22 13:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 13:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-22 01:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 00:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 00:53 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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