Revision History

• 1.0: July 18, 2023 – Initial Public Release

Summary

Veritas has recently received inquiries from NetBackup customers regarding a previously released Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40664) in the Apache Shiro framework found in NetBackup.

Veritas analyzed the vulnerability when it was announced and determined NetBackup is not impacted by this issue as it does not use Apache Shiro's Authentication mechanism.

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