EMC Legato NetWorker, Sun Solstice Backup 6.0 and 6.1, and StorEdge Enterprise Backup 7.0 through 7.2 rely on AUTH_UNIX authentication,…

Description

EMC Legato NetWorker, Sun Solstice Backup 6.0 and 6.1, and StorEdge Enterprise Backup 7.0 through 7.2 rely on AUTH_UNIX authentication, which relies on user ID for authentication and allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain privileges by spoofing a username or UID.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 16470 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 16464 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 18800 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 1014713 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 14582 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.legato.com/support/websupport/product_alerts/081605_NW_authentication.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 101886 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• legato-authunix-bypass-authentication(21887) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• VU#606857 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 21:13 UTC.