CVE-2006-4902

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2006-4902 · Published 14/12/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-4902 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting veritas netbackup client (symantec), veritas netbackup enterprise server (symantec), veritas netbackup server (symantec).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.3%, higher than 91.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
veritas netbackup client symantec	`= 5.0= 5.1= 6.0`	No fix yet
veritas netbackup enterprise server symantec	`= 5.0= 5.1= 6.0`	No fix yet
veritas netbackup server symantec	`= 5.0= 5.1= 6.0`	No fix yet

Description

The NetBackup bpcd daemon (bpcd.exe) in Symantec Veritas NetBackup 5.0 before 5.0_MP7, 5.1 before 5.1_MP6, and 6.0 before 6.0_MP4 does not properly check for chained commands, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by appending malicious commands to valid commands.

References

secunia.com/advisories/23368 · Patch
securitytracker.com/id · Patch
iss.net/threats/247.html
kb.cert.org/vuls/id/252936 · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/21565 · Patch
symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.12.13a.html · Patch
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4999
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27638

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