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.

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

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (55.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 55.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-290 — Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

References

www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96488 (vdb-entry)

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.