Vulnerability · Published May 3, 2024 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-34404
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity improper access control in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability was discovered in the Alta Recovery Vault feature of Veritas NetBackup before 10.4 and NetBackup Appliance before 5.4. By design, only the cloud administrator should be able to disable the retention lock of Governance mode images. This vulnerability allowed a NetBackup administrator to modify the expiration of backups under Governance mode (which could cause premature deletion).
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:N/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N