What is CVE-2017-6401?

CVE-2017-6401 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-6401?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Veritas Netbackup

CVE-2017-6401

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.004 (29.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Veritas Netbackup
Veritas Netbackup_appliance
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6401?: CVE-2017-6401 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-6401?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.