FKIE_CVE-2022-45461

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-11-17 08:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:10
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Java Admin Console in Veritas NetBackup through 10.1 and related Veritas products on Linux and UNIX allows authenticated non-root users (that have been explicitly added to the auth.conf file) to execute arbitrary commands as root.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-015Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-015Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
veritas netbackup *
linux linux_kernel -
opengroup unix -
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