CVE-2017-6408 describes a local privilege escalation race condition in Veritas NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance versions 8.0 and earlier, and 3.0 and earlier, respectively. A local user can exploit this by connecting to a socket before its permissions are properly secured. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.0 (HIGH), indicating a high-impact flaw with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While it requires local access, the attack complexity is high. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are also minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.