CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2291

7.2 HIGH Published 2013-01-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-01-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

EMC Avamar Client 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x on HP-UX and Mac OS X, and the EMC Avamar plugin 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x for Oracle, uses world-writable permissions for cache directories, which allows local users to gain privileges via an unspecified symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• emc avamar 4.0 • emc avamar 4.1 • emc avamar 5.0 • emc avamar 5.0.0-407 • emc avamar 5.0.4-26 • emc avamar 6.0 • emc avamar plugin 4.0 • emc avamar plugin 5.0 • emc avamar plugin 6.0 • emc avamar plugin 6.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References