VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-6550

critical
Published 2016-05-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

bpcd in Veritas NetBackup 7.x through 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.x through 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.x through 7.6.1.2, and 7.7.x before 7.7.2 and NetBackup Appliance through 2.5.4, 2.6.0.x through 2.6.0.4, 2.6.1.x through 2.6.1.2, and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secure@symantec.com — https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS16-001.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
veritasnetbackup_appliance1.1.0.1
veritasnetbackup_appliance1.1.0.2
veritasnetbackup_appliance1.2
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.0
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.0.1
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.0.2
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.0.3
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.5
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.5.1
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.5.2
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.5.3
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6.0.2
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6.0.3
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6.0.4
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6.1
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6.1.1
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.6.1.2
veritasnetbackup_appliance2.7.1
veritasnetbackup7.0
veritasnetbackup7.0.1
veritasnetbackup7.1.0.1
veritasnetbackup7.1.0.2
veritasnetbackup7.1.0.3
veritasnetbackup7.1.0.4
veritasnetbackup7.5.0.1
veritasnetbackup7.5.0.3
veritasnetbackup7.5.0.4
veritasnetbackup7.5.0.5
veritasnetbackup7.5.0.6
veritasnetbackup7.5.0.7
veritasnetbackup7.6.0.2
veritasnetbackup7.6.0.3
veritasnetbackup7.6.0.4
veritasnetbackup7.6.1.1
veritasnetbackup7.6.1.2
veritasnetbackup7.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.