Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LSummary
CVE-2025-59468 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Veeam Veeam Backup \& Replication. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 36% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-59468 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) that allows a Backup Administrator to achieve remote code execution (RCE) as the postgres user by supplying a malicious password parameter. Published on 2026-01-08, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.0 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L), reflecting its critical severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, and significant impacts despite requiring high privileges. The vulnerability affects Veeam software components involving PostgreSQL interactions, as referenced in the vendor's knowledge base.
A Backup Administrator, possessing high-level privileges (PR:H), can exploit this flaw remotely over the network without user interaction. By crafting and sending a malicious password parameter, the attacker triggers command injection, resulting in RCE executed in the context of the postgres user. This yields high confidentiality and integrity impacts, a change in scope (S:C), and low availability disruption, potentially allowing unauthorized access to sensitive data or further system compromise within the affected environment.
Veeam has published mitigation guidance in knowledge base article KB4792 at https://www.veeam.com/kb4792, which security practitioners should consult for patching instructions, workarounds, and affected version details.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-1515
Vulnerability Data
This vulnerability allows a Backup Administrator to perform remote code execution (RCE) as the postgres user by sending a malicious password parameter.
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Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover command-construction flaws before deployment.
Input validation directly stops construction of commands from untrusted data containing special elements.
Secure engineering principles include proper neutralization and safe command construction practices.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly require input validation and neutralization that prevent command injection.
Runtime monitoring of software and data can detect anomalous command execution resulting from injection.
Identifying recorded vulnerabilities enables remediation of command-injection flaws before exploitation.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure coding standards require proper escaping and parameterization of commands, directly eliminating CWE-77.
Security testing in development catches command-injection vulnerabilities before release.
Secure development life cycle mandates input validation and command construction practices that directly prevent command injection.
Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection flaws including command injection.
Secure architecture principles reduce the attack surface but do not prescribe the specific neutralization techniques needed.
Environment separation limits the blast radius of an exploited command injection but does not prevent the flaw itself.