CVE-2006-0991

Netbackup vulnerability

CVSS

7.1

EPSS

11.0%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in the NetBackup Sharepoint Services server daemon (bpspsserver) on NetBackup 6.0 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted "Request Service" packets to the vnetd service (TCP port 13724).

Affected vendor

Veritas

Affected product

Netbackup

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2006-03-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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