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

Published 2017-03-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (28.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-06.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/96493 (vdb-entry)
www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html (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.