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CVE-2024-33672 (GCVE-0-2024-33672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 02:36
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 10.4. The Multi-Threaded Agent used in NetBackup can be leveraged to perform arbitrary file deletion on protected files.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:N/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-29 18:39 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
veritas netbackup Affected: 0 , < 10.4 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:veritas:netbackup:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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