CVE-2017-6405: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. Hostname-based security is open to DNS spoofing.

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.