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Continuity Software’s VP of Marketing Doron Youngerwood offers commentary on various exploitable storage and backup vulnerabilities. <\/strong><\/em>This article originally appeared in Insight Jam<\/a>, an enterprise IT community that enables human conversation on AI.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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On May 1st<\/sup>, enterprise backup vendor, Commvault revealed that an unknown nation-state threat actor breached its Microsoft Azure environment by exploiting CVE-2025-3928.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the only vulnerability making headlines. A few days earlier, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officially added a significant security flaw affecting Broadcom\u2019s Brocade Storage Fabric OS to its authoritative catalog, underscoring the urgent need for remediation across enterprise and government environments.<\/p>\n

The vulnerability has the potential to allow local attackers with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code with full root access.<\/p>\n

This escalation of privilege could enable a complete compromise of the underlying storage network infrastructure, posing significant risks to data integrity and operational continuity.<\/p>\n

Not Isolated Cases: A Growing List of Exploited Vulnerabilities<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The exploitation of Commvault and Brocade is far from isolated incidents. In recent months, multiple vulnerabilities in storage and backup solutions have been discovered and actively exploited. Examples include:<\/p>\n

Veeam Backup & Replication<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n

CVE-2022-26500 and CVE-2022-26501: These vulnerabilities allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. They were actively exploited by ransomware groups like Monti and Yanluowang shortly after discovery, emphasizing the importance of timely patching.<\/p>\n

MinIO<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n

CVE-2023-28432: This vulnerability in MinIO’s Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework allows attackers to return all environment variables, including sensitive information like MINIO_SECRET_KEY and MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD.<\/p>\n

Attackers were caught exploiting the above MinIO vulnerability, as reported by CISA.<\/p>\n

Veritas Backup Exec<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n

CVE-2021-27876: This vulnerability allows unauthorized file access through the Backup Exec Agent.<\/p>\n

This vulnerability had been actively exploited, highlighting the risks associated with unpatched backup solutions.<\/p>\n

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

CVE-2020-14871: Easy-to-use, actively exploited vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attacker to compromise the system, causing high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why Storage & Backup Security Matters More Than Ever<\/strong><\/h3>\n

From ransomware to insider threats, if your\u00a0primary storage is compromised<\/strong>, hundreds or thousands of workloads \u2014 databases, containers, VMs \u2014 can go down in a flash.<\/p>\n

Worse still, if your\u00a0backup systems are compromised<\/strong>, there\u2019s\u00a0no Plan B<\/strong>. No way to recover. You\u2019re out of options.<\/p>\n

On average, each enterprise storage or backup device has\u00a010 vulnerabilities<\/strong>, including\u00a05 critical or high-severity<\/strong>\u00a0ones. Yet most organizations have limited visibility into these weaknesses.<\/p>\n

Two Key Steps to Fortify Your Storage & Backup Systems<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1. Build a Secure Configuration Baseline<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Define secure settings per product (e.g. Dell, Pure, Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, Rubrik, Cohesity) \u2013 and ensure they\u2019re reviewed and refreshed regularly. A secure baseline includes both system-level and security controls that reflect vendor guidance\u00a0and<\/strong>\u00a0real-world attack patterns.<\/p>\n

2. Perform a Gap Assessment<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Vulnerability and Patch Management<\/strong><\/h5>\n

1 Ability to scan our Storage & Backup appliances?<\/p>\n

2 Authenticated scan for vulnerabilities and missing patches ? Runs Platform-Specific APIs \/ Commands?<\/p>\n

3\u00a0Automatic detection and remediation validation? (Patch \/ mitigating configuration)<\/p>\n

4 Solid inventory of all Storage & Backup arrays, appliances, nodes & software?<\/p>\n

Security Baseline, Configuration Compliance and Drift Management<\/strong><\/h5>\n

5 Defined target system & security settings for Storage & Backup Platforms?<\/p>\n

6 Repeatable way to assess security misconfigurations? Continuous drift detection?<\/p>\n

Knowledge<\/strong><\/h5>\n

7 Expertise in securing Storage & Backup technologies?<\/p>\n

8 Researched security best practices & hardening instructions for Storage & Backup Platforms?<\/p>\n

Gap assessments surface weak spots you didn\u2019t know existed.<\/em><\/p>\n

What a Complete\u00a0Storage & Backup Security<\/em>\u00a0Program<\/em>\u00a0Looks Like<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Storage and backup systems are your organization\u2019s most critical \u2014 and ironically most overlooked \u2014 assets. They deserve the same security rigor as endpoints, networks, and apps.<\/p>\n

A well-architected Security Posture Management plan for storage and backups includes:<\/p>\n