CVE-2012-2291

high
Published 2013-01-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
dell emcavamar4.0
dell emcavamar4.1
dell emcavamar5.0
dell emcavamar5.0.0-407
dell emcavamar5.0.4-26
dell emcavamar6.0
dell emcavamar_plugin4.0
dell emcavamar_plugin5.0
dell emcavamar_plugin6.0
dell emcavamar_plugin6.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.