What is CVE-2017-6405?

CVE-2017-6405 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-6405?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup

CVE-2017-6405

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. Hostname-based security is open to DNS spoofing.

EPSS: 0.008 (53.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-290 — Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6405?: CVE-2017-6405 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-6405?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.