CVE-2022-46411 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale through 3.0 and Access Appliance through 8.0.100. A default password is persisted after installation and may be discovered and used to escalate privileges.

Published: 2022-12-04

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:veritas:access_appliance::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup_flex_scale_appliance::::::::

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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-2022-49220	An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale through 3.0 and Access Appliance through 8.0.100. A default password is persisted after installation and may be discovered and used to escalate privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00335.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-019#issue3

History

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Veritas Access Appliance Netbackup Flex Scale Appliance

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-24T15:17:59.189Z

Reserved: 2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-46411

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:31:46.334Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-04T05:15:10.010

Modified: 2025-04-24T16:15:24.503

Link: CVE-2022-46411

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-287

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