CVE-2017-6401: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 8.0 and NetBackup Appliance before 3.0. Local arbitrary command execution can occur when using bpcd and bpnbat.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: up to and including 8.0
• Veritas Netbackup Appliance: up to and including 3.0

Published 2017-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.