CVE•Published 2026-03-12•Modified 2026-05-10•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-21672

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 72% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-538Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

Description

A vulnerability allowing local privilege escalation on Windows-based Veeam Backup & Replication servers.

Timeline

Published 2026-03-12

Modified 2026-05-10

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB Sploitus VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-21672

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-21672

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-21672

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2026-21672

Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.

GitHub code

CVE-2026-21672

GitHub code search for direct mentions.

Google dork

"CVE-2026-21672" exploit -site:nvd.nist.gov

Write-ups and news, NVD excluded.

Known PoCs on GitHub

No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-21672 on GitHub.