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01 Record

CVE-2022-36955

In Veritas NetBackup, an attacker with unprivileged local access to a NetBackup Client may send specific commands to escalate their privileges. This affects 8.0 through 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3 through

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score7.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:R

02 Description

In Veritas NetBackup, an attacker with unprivileged local access to a NetBackup Client may send specific commands to escalate their privileges. This affects 8.0 through 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3 through

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
0.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 10.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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
2022-07-27 20:58Z4 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-03 10:21Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2022-07-27
Assigning CNA
mitre
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.8)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:R
Weaknesses
No CWE assigned
Data version
5.1
Document digest
5bf4c98ff62f66517f4e779f908d05b6c63e08012b56eb3780f0bd3ee95c3a4b

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
veritasnetbackupNot specified—

06 References