CVE-2024-40718 is a server-side request forgery vulnerability affecting Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Plug-In and Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization Plug-In. The flaw allows a local low-privileged user to abuse server-side request handling to make unintended requests and leverage that behavior to achieve local privilege escalation. Affected versions include Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Plug-In 12.5.1.8 and earlier 12.x releases, and Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization Plug-In 12.4.1.45 and earlier 12.x releases.
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