High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-6408

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. A local-privilege-escalation race condition in pbx_exchange can occur when a local user connects to a socket before permissions are secured.

Affected products

Symantec/Netbackup
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=8.0
Symantec/Netbackup Appliance
cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=3.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96491nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037950nvd

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