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High 7.2Published Jan 21, 2013
CVE-2012-2291EMC 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 g…
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.2 HIGH (v2.0, NVD)AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Nov 1, 2026
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