CVE-2017-6404 Misconfiguration in n/a

What is CVE-2017-6404?

CVE-2017-6404 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup, published on 2 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6404?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Netbackup Appliance.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6404?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6404 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-6404 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6404 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Veritas Netbackup

• CVE-2022-36954 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-28222 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-36950 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-36951 Other in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-8856 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Veritas Netbackup vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m96m-v25p-c746.