THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-18652
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-18652

Netbackup Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
A remote command execution vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup Appliance before 3.1.2 allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary commands as root. This issue was caused by insufficient filtering of user provided input.
Affected vendor
Veritas
Affected product
Netbackup Appliance
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2018-10-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-18652

  • Confirm whether Veritas Netbackup Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-18652.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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