CVE-2017-6405

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-6405 · Published 02/03/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-6405 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting netbackup (veritas), netbackup appliance (veritas).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.83%, higher than 57.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
netbackup veritas	`≤ 8.0`	No fix yet
netbackup appliance veritas	`≤ 3.0`	No fix yet

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. Hostname-based security is open to DNS spoofing.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/96488
veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

netbackup

veritas

≤ 8.0

No fix yet

netbackup appliance

veritas

≤ 3.0

No fix yet

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