CVE-2015-6551

medium
Published 2016-05-07 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

Veritas NetBackup 7.x through 7.5.0.7 and 7.6.0.x through 7.6.0.4 and NetBackup Appliance through 2.5.4 and 2.6.0.x through 2.6.0.4 do not use TLS for administration-console traffic to the NBU server, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network for key-exchange packets.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

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-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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