CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6408

7.0 HIGH Published 2017-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• veritas netbackup (<= 8.0) • veritas netbackup appliance (<= 3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References