CVE-2015-6550: Veritas Netbackup

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bpcd in Veritas NetBackup 7.x through 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.x through 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.x through 7.6.1.2, and 7.7.x before 7.7.2 and NetBackup Appliance through 2.5.4, 2.6.0.x through 2.6.0.4, 2.6.1.x through 2.6.1.2, and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.1.0.1 only; version 7.1.0.2 only; version 7.1.0.3 only; version 7.1.0.4 only; …
• Veritas Netbackup Appliance: version 1.1.0.1 only; version 1.1.0.2 only; version 1.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; …

Published 2016-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.