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CVE-2004-1389

43
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1389 is an unknown vulnerability in the Veritas NetBackup Administrative Assistant interface, affecting various versions of NetBackup BusinessServer, DataCenter, Enterprise Server, and NetBackup Server. This flaw allows authenticated, local attackers to execute arbitrary commands through the bpjava-susvc process, potentially leveraging a call-back feature. With a CVSS score of 6.0 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C), it indicates high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and high attack complexity. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via a Metasploit module, and it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:3.4.0:*:businessserver:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:3.4.0:*:datacenter:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:3.4.1:*:businessserver:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:3.4.1:*:datacenter:*:*:*:*:*
4.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:4.5.0:*:businessserver:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.0MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: VERITAS NetBackup Remote Command Execution · Oct 21, 2004
ExploitDB: EDB-9941 · Oct 21, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0986 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 1,296 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/12901
Vendor Advisory
seer.support.veritas.com / docs/271727.htm
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17811
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/p-020.shtml
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/685456
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/11494