CVE-2017-7444 is a DLL hijacking vulnerability affecting Veritas System Recovery versions prior to 16 SP1. An attacker with write access to the product's execution directory could exploit this during the patch installation process. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability allows for high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability if a user is tricked into running a malicious installer. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:veritas:system_recovery:16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.