What is CVE-2022-42308?

CVE-2022-42308 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2022-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2022-42308?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Veritas Netbackup

CVE-2022-42308

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can delete arbitrary files by leveraging a path traversal in the pbx_exchange registration code.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.002 (10.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Veritas Netbackup
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-42308?: CVE-2022-42308 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2022-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2022-42308?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.