CVE-2024-52945

Summary

CVE-2024-52945 is a vulnerability affecting Veritas NetBackup versions prior to 10.5, which only impacts NetBackup components running on Windows Operating Systems. This issue can be exploited through the execution of specific NetBackup commands or through social engineering techniques. If successfully exploited, a malicious DLL is loaded, granting the attacker the ability to run their code in the user's security context. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to Windows environments running the affected NetBackup versions. Users are advised to update to the latest version as soon as possible.

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