What is CVE-2017-6406?

CVE-2017-6406 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Access. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-6406?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Veritas Access

CVE-2017-6406

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Before 7.7.2 and NetBackup Appliance Before 2.7.2. Arbitrary privileged command execution, using whitelist directory escape with "../" substrings, can occur.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (36.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 36.1% 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

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/96486 (vdb-entry)
www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6406?: CVE-2017-6406 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Access. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-6406?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.