CVE-2022-42306

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in veritas netbackup. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can send a crafted packet to pbx_exchange during registration and cause a NULL pointer exception, effectively crashing the pbx_exchange process.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2022-10-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

veritas:netbackup

References

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1

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