CVE-2012-2291 (GCVE-0-2012-2291)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-21 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
1 reference
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