Medium severity · published Oct 3, 2022
CVE-2022-42306
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can send a crafted packet to pbx_exchange during registration and cause a NULL pointer exception, effectively crashing the pbx_exchange process.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 8% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NE
NetBackup · Veritas
through 8.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42306
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-42306
Patch
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1
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