Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (VEE1767793059)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Veeam Software's Vulnerability and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Veeam Software Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Veeam Software breach identified under incident ID VEE1767793059.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Veeam Software's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veeam-software, the number of followers: 441236, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 6673 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 100 and after the incident was 100 with a difference of 0 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Veeam Software and their customers.
Veeam recently reported "Veeam Backup & Replication Software Vulnerabilities", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Veeam has released security updates to address multiple flaws in its Backup & Replication software, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-59470) that could result in remote code execution (RCE).
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Veeam Backup & Replication software (versions 13.0.1.180 and earlier).
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Security updates released (version 13.0.1.1071), and began remediation that includes Apply patches to Veeam Backup & Replication software, and stakeholders are being briefed through Security bulletin published.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as Organizations should follow Veeam's recommended Security Guidelines to reduce exploitation risks. Highly privileged roles (Backup/Tape Operator, Backup Administrator) should be protected to prevent misuse, and recommending next steps like Apply the latest security updates (version 13.0.1.1071) immediately. Monitor for signs of exploitation and restrict access to privileged roles, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering Users of Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.180 and earlier versions should update to version 13.0.1.1071.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw tracked as CVE-2025-59470 (CVSS 9.0). Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating backup/Tape Operators can achieve RCE as root via malicious backup config (CVE-2025-55125) and Valid Accounts (T1078) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation requires Backup/Tape Operators or Backup Administrators roles. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating execute arbitrary code as postgres user via malicious interval/order parameters and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating rCE via crafted password parameter (CVE-2025-59468). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation leverages legitimate Backup/Tape Operator or Admin roles. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potential unauthorized remote code execution or file write access. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Veeam Software Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/veeam-software/incident/VEE1767793059
- Veeam Software CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/veeam-software
- Veeam Software Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/vee1767793059-vulnerability-january-2026/
- Veeam Software CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/veeam-software/history
- Veeam Software CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/veeam-patches-critical-rce.html
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf