CVE-2020-37045: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Veritas NetBackup 7.0 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the NetBackup INET Daemon service that allows local users to potentially execute arbitrary code. Attackers can exploit the unquoted path in C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpinetd.exe to inject malicious code that would execute with elevated LocalSystem privileges.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: version 7.0 only

Published 2026-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.