Vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup
CVE-2017-6408
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. A local-privilege-escalation race condition in pbx_exchange can occur when a local user connects to a socket before permissions are secured.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.002 (12.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 12th percentile — 12.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037950 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96491 (vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-6408?
- CVE-2017-6408 is a high-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2017-03-02.
- How severe is CVE-2017-6408?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.