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Home›CVE Pulse›CVE-2012-2291

CVE-2012-2291

NONECVSS 0.0

0.0

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.

📅 Published

January 21, 2013

🔄 Last Modified

April 29, 2026

🔗 References (2)

security_alert@emchttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-01/0086.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-01/0086.html

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