VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0921

medium
Published 2016-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 use weak permissions for unspecified directories, which allows local users to obtain root access by replacing a script with a Trojan horse program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
emcavamar_server{"endIncluding":"7.3.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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