CVE-2024-34404 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00036.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Veritas	Netbackup Netbackup Appliance

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Vendors	Products
Veritas	Netbackup Netbackup Appliance

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-34769	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).

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/security/VTS24-004

History

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-284
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-28T19:21:58.347Z

Reserved: 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-34404

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T02:51:11.440Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-03T01:15:48.753

Modified: 2025-03-28T20:15:23.287

Link: CVE-2024-34404

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:09:30Z

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