ESA-2011-018: Domain administration privilege enforcement bypass in EMC Avamar

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ESA-2011-018: Domain administration privilege enforcement bypass in EMC Avamar.

EMC Identifier: ESA-2011-018
CVE Identifier: CVE-2011-1740 

Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.9 (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected products:
EMC Avamar version 4.x
EMC Avamar version 5.0.x
EMC Avamar version 6.0.x

Vulnerability Summary:
A vulnerability exists in EMC Avamar which may be exploited to bypass domain 
level privilege enforcement.
 
Vulnerability Details:
EMC Avamar software contains a potential privilege enforcement bypass 
vulnerability. This could allow a domain administrator or operator to restore 
data from and/or to clients in another domain to which the administrator or 
operator is not intended to have access rights. This flaw may also allow domain 
administrators or operators to view information about backup, restore and 
replication activities associated within another domain.

Resolution:
The following EMC Avamar products contain resolution to this issue:
? EMC Avamar version v5.0.4-30 with hotfix 27192 and hotfix 27230 applied (both 
hot fixes must be applied)
? EMC Avamar v6.0.0-592 and later

EMC strongly recommends all customers apply the hotfixes or upgrade at the 
earliest opportunity.

Link to remedies:
For the location of the hotfix and installation instructions please see KB 
article esg123677. To upgrade the Avamar server, 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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