CVE-2017-6400 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Veritas NetBackup before version 7.7.2 and NetBackup Appliance before 2.7.2, allowing for privileged command execution on the local system. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this flaw presents a significant risk, enabling an attacker with low privileges to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no known public exploit code, Metasploit modules, or active exploitation observed, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:access:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 7.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.