CVE-2017-8895

EPSS 71.0%

Vexday Risk Score

60Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 71.0%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —

Lifecycle

10 May 2017Metasploit module available

10 May 2017Published on NVD

29 Jun 2017Public PoC

Weaponization speed

49 daysto first PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

In Veritas Backup Exec 2014 before build 14.1.1187.1126, 15 before build 14.2.1180.3160, and 16 before FP1, there is a use-after-free vulnerability in multiple agents that can lead to a denial of service or remote code execution. An unauthenticated attacker can use this vulnerability to crash the agent or potentially take control of the agent process and then the system it is running on.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42282/https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS17-006.html#Issue1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98386 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038561