CVE-2012-2291
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
macOS Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Not affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.