CVE-2024-52945: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 10.5. This only applies to NetBackup components running on a Windows Operating System. If a user executes specific NetBackup commands or an attacker uses social engineering techniques to impel the user to execute the commands, a malicious DLL could be loaded, resulting in execution of the attacker's code in the user's security context.

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: before 10.5 (fixed in 10.5)

Published 2024-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.