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CVE-2017-6401

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 8.0 and NetBackup Appliance before 3.0.

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.4%
percentile 30%
Public exploits
0
none known

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 8.0 and NetBackup Appliance before 3.0. Local arbitrary command execution can occur when using bpcd and bpnbat.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.36% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.04.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/96493 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • veritas.com /content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html#Issue6 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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