CVE-2016-0905 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting EMC Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) in Avamar Server versions prior to 7.3.0-233. A local attacker with existing admin access can leverage this flaw to gain root privileges by executing a sudo command. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 6.7 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requiring high privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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