Revisions

1.0: May 7, 2017: Initial release
1.1: May 9, 2017: Added CVE

Summary

Remote command execution vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup Appliance allows unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary commands as root.

Issue Description Severity Fixed Version

1

Unauthenticated users can execute arbitrary commands as root

Critical

7 May EEB for 2.7.2, 2.7.3 and 3.0

 

Issues

Issue #1

Unauthenticated users can execute arbitrary commands as root.

CVE ID: CVE-2017-8859
Severity: Critical
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

There is a remote command execution vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup Appliance that allows unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary commands as root, giving the attacker full access to the appliance and its data.

This issue existed because of insufficient filtering of user provided input.

Affected Products

  • NetBackup Appliance 3.0, 2.7.3 and 2.7.2 and earlier

Note: NetBackup itself is not affected by this issue; it only affects the NetBackup appliance.

 

Questions

If you have any questions about any information in this security advisory please contact Veritas technical support.

 

References

 

Acknowledgement

Veritas would like to thank Matt Johnson of Morgan Stanley for reporting this vulnerability.

 

Best Practices

As part of normal best practices, Veritas recommends that customers:

  • Restrict access of administration or management systems to privileged users.
  • Restrict remote access, if required, to trusted/authorized systems only.
  • Keep all operating systems and applications updated with the latest vendor patches.
  • Follow a multi-layered approach to security. Run both firewall and anti-malware applications, at a minimum, to provide multiple points of detection and protection to both inbound and outbound threats.
  • Deploy network and host-based intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for signs of anomalous or suspicious activity. This may aid in detection of attacks or malicious activity related to exploitation of latent vulnerabilities

 

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