CVE-2022-36990: Veritas Flex Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% 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 authenticated access to a NetBackup Client could remotely write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations from any Client to any other Client via a 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.