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CVE-2006-4228
Symantec Veritas NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition 6.0 before MP1 20060816 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and…
- 9.0HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Symantec Veritas NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition 6.0 before MP1 20060816 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges via unknown attack vectors in the management interface.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 1016704 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1412 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- netbackup-puredisk-auth-bypass(28415) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060816 SYM06-16 Symantec NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition Elevation of Privilege (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.08.16.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 21507 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/284734.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20060817 Re: SYM06-16 Symantec NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition Elevation of Privilege (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3299 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 19524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-4218 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-4228)Record last updated .