CVE-2005-0773: Symantec Veritas Backup Exec

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 86.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent 9.0 through 10.0 for Windows, and 9.0.4019 through 9.1.307 for Netware allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CONNECT_CLIENT_AUTH request with authentication method type 3 (Windows credentials) and a long password argument.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Backup Exec: version 9.0.4019 only; version 9.0.4170 only; version 9.0.4172 only; version 9.0.4174 only; version 9.0.4202 only; version 9.0_rev.4367 only; …

Published 2005-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.