CVE-2012-2291

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

EMC Avamar Plugin

First reported 12 years ago

2013-01-21 21:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2013-01-22 05:00:00

Affected Software

EMC Avamar Plugin 4.0 for Oracle

4.0

EMC Avamar Plugin 5.0 for Oracle

5.0

EMC Avamar Plugin 6.0 for Oracle

6.0

EMC Avamar Plugin 6.1 for Oracle

6.1

References

20130121 Re: EMC Avamar: World writable cache files

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