CVE-2017-8857

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2017-8857 · Published 09/05/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-8857 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting netbackup (veritas), netbackup appliance (veritas).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.7%, higher than 93.0% 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

In Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier, there is unauthenticated file copy and arbitrary remote command execution using the 'bprd' process.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/98384 · Third Party Advisory
veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-004.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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