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CVE-2022-42306

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

• Veritas NetBackup: through 8.2

References

• https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1
• https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1

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