EIP-2026-114775

PRE-CVE

Veritas NetBackup 3.5/4.5/5.0 - Multiple Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (1)

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-114775. PoCs published by Secure Network Operations.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a local buffer overflow vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup binaries (specifically bperror) to achieve root privilege escalation. It leverages a crafted environment variable and a long argument to overwrite the return address with shellcode.

Description

Veritas NetBackup 3.5/4.5/5.0 - Multiple Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (1)

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Secure Network Operations · perllocalunix
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24062

This exploit targets a local buffer overflow vulnerability in Veritas NetBackup binaries (specifically bperror) to achieve root privilege escalation. It leverages a crafted environment variable and a long argument to overwrite the return address with shellcode.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Veritas NetBackup 4.x and 5.x
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Non-root admin setup must have been run to enable setuid binaries · Target binary must be present on the system
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026