VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-8022

high
Published 2017-10-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

Description

An issue was discovered in EMC NetWorker (prior to 8.2.4.9, all supported 9.0.x versions, prior to 9.1.1.3, prior to 9.2.0.4). The Server service (nsrd) is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the software, or cause a denial of service, depending on the target system's platform.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
dell emcnetworker{"endIncluding":"8.2.4.8"}
dell emcnetworker9.0.0.3
dell emcnetworker9.0.0.4
dell emcnetworker9.0.0.5
dell emcnetworker9.0.0.6
dell emcnetworker9.0.0.7
dell emcnetworker9.0.0.8
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.1
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.2
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.3
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.4
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.5
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.6
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.7
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.8
dell emcnetworker9.0.1.9
dell emcnetworker9.1.0.3
dell emcnetworker9.1.0.4
dell emcnetworker9.1.0.5
dell emcnetworker9.1.0.6
dell emcnetworker9.1.1.1
dell emcnetworker9.1.1.2
dell emcnetworker9.2.0.1
dell emcnetworker9.2.0.2
dell emcnetworker9.2.0.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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