CVSS 3.0
7.0 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-6408
High (7.0) in veritas. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- veritas:netbackup
- veritas:netbackup_appliance