01 Record
CVE-2017-8859
In Veritas NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier, unauthenticated users can execute arbitrary commands as root.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
In Veritas NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier, unauthenticated users can execute arbitrary commands as root.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.55% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-05-09 21:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 16:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-05-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c57088e4e7adcfcbe46e549d66e5a5ae610a3fac168d8fc6c96c518003bec55e
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com98383http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98383
- www.veritas.comhttps://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-005.html#Issue1