CVE-2012-2291: Emc Avamar

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Emc Avamar: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.0-407 only; version 5.0.4-26 only; version 6.0 only
• Emc Avamar Plugin: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only

Published 2013-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.