CVE-2017-8895: Veritas Backup Exec

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Veritas Backup Exec 2014 before build 14.1.1187.1126, 15 before build 14.2.1180.3160, and 16 before FP1, there is a use-after-free vulnerability in multiple agents that can lead to a denial of service or remote code execution. An unauthenticated attacker can use this vulnerability to crash the agent or potentially take control of the agent process and then the system it is running on.

Affected products

• Veritas Backup Exec: before 14.1.1786.1126 (fixed in 14.1.1786.1126); before 14.2.1180.3160 (fixed in 14.2.1180.3160); before 16.0.1142.1327 (fixed in 16.0.1142.1327)

Published 2017-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.