CVE-2022-36997: Veritas Flex Appliance

High severity, CVSS 8.8. 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 trigger impacts that include arbitrary file read, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), and denial of service.

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.