ESA-2011-006: EMC Avamar privilege escalation vulnerability

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ESA-2011-006: EMC Avamar privilege escalation vulnerability.




EMC Identifier: ESA-2011-006




CVE Identifier: CVE-2011-0648




Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)




Affected products:
EMC Avamar version v5.0.4-26 and earlier




Vulnerability Summary:
A vulnerability exists in EMC Avamar which may be exploited to get escalated 
privileges in the affected system.


Vulnerability Details:
EMC Avamar contains a potential privilege escalation vulnerability that may 
allow an authenticated user to obtain escalated administrative privileges in 
the affected system.




Problem Resolution:
The following EMC Avamar products contain resolution to this issue:


? EMC Avamar versions v4.1.0-1470, v4.1.1-340, v4.1.2-33, v5.0.0-407, -409, 
-410, v5.0.1-32, v5.0.2-41, and v5.0.3-29 with hotfix 24753 applied
? EMC Avamar 5.0.4-30 or later




EMC strongly recommends all customers apply the hotfix or upgrade to Avamar 
Version 5.0.4-30 or later, which contain the resolution to this issue, at the 
earliest opportunity.


Link to remedies:
For the location of the hotfix and installation instructions please see KB 
article esg119699. To upgrade the Avamar server to v5.0 SP4 please contact 
Avamar Customer Support to schedule an upgrade.




For explanation of Severity Ratings, refer to EMC Knowledgebase solution 
emc218831. EMC recommends that all customers take into account both the base 
score and any relevant temporal and environmental scores, which may impact the 
potential severity associated with particular security vulnerability.




EMC Corporation distributes EMC Security Advisories in order to bring to the 
attention of users of the affected EMC products important security information. 
EMC recommends all users determine the applicability of this information to 
their individual situations and take appropriate action. The information set 
forth herein is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. EMC disclaims 
all warranties, either express or implied, including the warranties of 
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. 
In no event shall EMC or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever 
including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits 
or special damages, even if EMC or its suppliers have been advised of the 
possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or 
limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages so the 
foregoing limitation may not apply.

EMC Product Security Response Center
Security_Alert@xxxxxxx
http://www.emc.com/contact-us/contact/product-security-response-center.htm

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