CVE-2004-1389

Status: ModifiedMedium (6)—💥 Exploit

Unknown vulnerability in the Veritas NetBackup Administrative Assistant interface for NetBackup BusinesServer 3.4, 3.4.1, and 4.5, DataCenter 3.4, 3.4.1, and 4.5, Enterprise Server 5.1, and NetBackup Server 5.0 and 5.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the bpjava-susvc process, possibly related to the call-back feature.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Base score: 6

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 9.86%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 95
Score date: 10/7/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Metasploit module (reliable, widely available exploit) · VERITAS NetBackup Remote Command Execution
Published on Exploit-DB · Veritas NetBackup - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit) (10/21/2004)

Affected technologies (1)

Veritas — Netbackup

CWEs

NVD-CWE-Other

References

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