CVE-2017-6408 (GCVE-0-2017-6408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-02 06:00
Modified
2024-08-05 15:25
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. A local-privilege-escalation race condition in pbx_exchange can occur when a local user connects to a socket before permissions are secured.
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