What is CVE-2015-6551?

CVE-2015-6551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2016-05-07.

How severe is CVE-2015-6551?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Veritas Netbackup

CVE-2015-6551

Veritas NetBackup 7.x through 7.5.0.7 and 7.6.0.x through 7.6.0.4 and NetBackup Appliance through 2.5.4 and 2.6.0.x through 2.6.0.4 do not use TLS for administration-console traffic to the NBU server, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network for key-exchange packets.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.011 (63.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Veritas Netbackup — versions 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1.0.1
Veritas Netbackup_appliance — versions 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secure@symantec.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secure@symantec.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-6551?: CVE-2015-6551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2016-05-07.
How severe is CVE-2015-6551?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.