CVE-2016-7399: Veritas Netbackup Appliance Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scripts/license.pl in Veritas NetBackup Appliance 2.6.0.x through 2.6.0.4, 2.6.1.x through 2.6.1.2, 2.7.x through 2.7.3, and 3.0.x allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the hostName parameter to appliancews/getLicense.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup Appliance Firmware: version 2.6.0.0 only; version 2.6.0.1 only; version 2.6.0.2 only; version 2.6.0.3 only; version 2.6.0.4 only; version 2.6.1.0 only; …

Published 2017-01-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.