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.
CVE-2012-2291 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 4 products from emc, from apple, from hp and 1 other, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2013, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2013-01-21T21:55:00.887
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 7.2 (HIGH)
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
3.9
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | emc | avamar | 4.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 4.1 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 5.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 5.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 5.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 5.0.0-407 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 5.0.4-26 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar | 6.0 | Yes |
| Operating System | apple | mac_os_x | * | No |
| Operating System | hp | hp-ux | * | No |
| Application | emc | avamar_plugin | 4.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar_plugin | 5.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar_plugin | 6.0 | Yes |
| Application | emc | avamar_plugin | 6.1 | Yes |
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