CVE-2022-36986: Veritas Flex Appliance

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.1.x through 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3.x through 8.3.0.2, 9.x through 9.0.0.1, and 9.1.x through 9.1.0.1 (and related NetBackup products). An attacker with unauthenticated access could remotely execute arbitrary commands on a NetBackup Primary server.

Affected products

• Veritas Flex Appliance: version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1 only
• Veritas Flex Scale: version 1.3.1 only; version 2.1 only
• Veritas Netbackup: version 8.1.1 only; version 8.1.2 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.3 only; version 8.3.0.1 only; version 8.3.0.2 only; …
• Veritas Netbackup Appliance: version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.2 only; version 3.2 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 3.3.0.1 only; …

Published 2022-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.