# CVE-2024-29849: Veeam - Authentication Bypass

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-29849 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-29849

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Veeam Backup & Replication
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-287 (Improper Authentication)
- **Tags:** enterprise_software, web_application

## Description

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager allows unauthenticated users to log in as any user to enterprise manager web interface.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-29849](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29849) is an authentication bypass vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication's Enterprise Manager, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user via the web interface. This flaw could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to sensitive backup management functions, potentially leading to data theft, manipulation, or disruption of backup operations.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 19th of June 2024.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-29849 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit CVE-2024-29849 by sending requests to the `/api/sessionMngr/` endpoint to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

## Timeline

- 2024-05-22: CVE Published. CVE-2024-29849 is published to NVD.
- 2024-06-19: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-29849 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-11-22: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-29849 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/sinsinology/CVE-2024-29849
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2024-29849

## Live exploitation data

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