High severity · published Oct 25, 2018
CVE-2018-18652
A remote command execution vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup Appliance before 3.1.2 allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary commands as root
7.2
CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A remote command execution vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup Appliance before 3.1.2 allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary commands as root. This issue was caused by insufficient filtering of user provided input.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NA
Netbackup Appliance · Veritas
before 3.1.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18652
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18652
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105737
Vendor Advisory
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS18-003.html
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