CVE-2017-6408 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-03-02

Score: 7.0 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup_appliance::::::::

No data.

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-15465	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00032.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96491
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037950
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html#Issue8

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Veritas Netbackup Netbackup Appliance

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-02T06:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:25:49.258Z

Reserved: 2017-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6408

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-02T06:59:01.120

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-6408

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-362

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