Quest Netvault Backup Denial of Service (CVE-2018-1162)

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Quest Netvault Backup. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the affected system...

CVE-2018-1162

Summary: CVE-2018-1162 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Quest NetVault Backup 11.2.0.13 due to a path validation flaw. The flaw occurs in the handling of Export requests where a user-supplied path isn’t properly validated before file operations, allowing an attacker to arbitrarily o...

CVE-2018-1162

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on vulnerable installations of Quest NetVault Backup 11.2.0.13. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be easily bypassed. The specific flaw...