What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-6404

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup Before 7.7 and NetBackup Appliance Before 2.7. There are world-writable log files, allowing destruction or spoofing of log data.

Affected products

• Veritas NetBackup: through 7.6.1.2
• Veritas Netbackup Appliance: through 2.6.1.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96494
• https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html#Issue9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96494
• https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-003.html#Issue9

Get alerted when CVE-2017-6404 or the next vulnerability affects your stack