CVE-2017-8859: Veritas Netbackup Appliance

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Veritas NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier, unauthenticated users can execute arbitrary commands as root.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup Appliance: up to and including 2.7.2; version 2.7.3 only; version 3.0 only

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