What is CVE-2017-6404?

CVE-2017-6404 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-6404?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup

CVE-2017-6404

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Before 7.7 and NetBackup Appliance Before 2.7. There are world-writable log files, allowing destruction or spoofing of log data.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (15.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 16th percentile — 15.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-276 — Incorrect Default Permissions

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/96494 (vdb-entry)
www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6404?: CVE-2017-6404 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-6404?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.