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CVE-2022-36997

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-36997 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Veritas NetBackup versions 8.1.x through 9.1.0.1, and related Flex Appliance and Flex Scale products. An authenticated attacker can exploit this flaw remotely to achieve arbitrary file reads, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), and denial of service. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:flex_appliance:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:flex_appliance:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:flex_appliance:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:flex_appliance:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:flex_appliance:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0067 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

veritas.com / content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-004
PatchVendor Advisory