CVE-2024-52945: veritas netbackup Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52945 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Code Injection vulnerability in veritas netbackup. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 18-11-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 19-11-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 10.5. This only applies to NetBackup components running on a Windows Operating System. If a user executes specific NetBackup commands or an attacker uses social engineering techniques to impel the user to execute the commands, a malicious DLL could be loaded, resulting in execution of the attacker's code in the user's security context.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.