CVE-2022-36956: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Veritas NetBackup, the NetBackup Client allows arbitrary command execution from any remote host that has access to a valid host-id NetBackup certificate/private key from the same domain. The affects 9.0.x through 9.0.0.1 and 9.1.x through 9.1.0.1.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: version 9.0 only; version 9.1.0.0 only

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