CVE-2022-42306

MEDIUM

Veritas NetBackup < 8.2 - Denial of Service via pbx_exchange Registration Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can send a crafted packet to pbx_exchange during registration and cause a NULL pointer exception, effectively crashing the pbx_exchange process.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
veritas/netbackup < 8.2
Published Oct 03, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026