CVE-2016-0904 describes a critical vulnerability in EMC Avamar Server, affecting Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) versions prior to 7.3.0-233. The flaw stems from the use of a shared, hardcoded encryption key across different customer installations, enabling remote attackers to decrypt sensitive client-server traffic. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.6 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality impact and low integrity/availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:emc:avamar_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
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