CVE-2022-36955

high

Description

In Veritas NetBackup, an attacker with unprivileged local access to a NetBackup Client may send specific commands to escalate their privileges. This affects 8.0 through 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3 through 8.3.0.2, 9.x through 9.0.0.1, and 9.1.x through 9.1.0.1.

References

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-008#Issue2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-07-27

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H