CVE-2017-8858: Veritas Netbackup

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier, there is unauthenticated privileged remote file write using the 'bprd' process.

Affected products

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

Published 2017-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.