Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2012-2291

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Mac_os_x
Emc Avamar — versions 4.0, 4.1, 5.0
Emc Avamar_plugin — versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
Hp Hp-ux
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

security_alert@emc.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)