CVE-2022-36998

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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 a stack-based buffer overflow on the NetBackup Primary server, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

Veritas Flex Appliance: 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1
Veritas Flex Scale: 1.3.1, 2.1
Veritas NetBackup: 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.3.0.1, 8.3.0.2 (+4)
Veritas Netbackup Appliance: 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 3.2-maintenance_release1 (+11)

References

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