CVE-2022-36955: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Veritas NetBackup, an attacker with unprivileged local access to a NetBackup Client may send specific commands to escalate their privileges. This affects 8.0 through 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3 through 8.3.0.2, 9.x through 9.0.0.1, and 9.1.x through 9.1.0.1.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: from 8.0, up to and including 8.1.2; from 8.3.0.0, up to and including 8.3.0.2; version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1.0.0 only

Published 2022-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.