SB2016092108 - Privilege Escalation in Dell EMC Avamar
Published: September 21, 2016 Updated: September 21, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016092108
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Privilege Escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0920)
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause abritrary command execution on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient access control. Attacker can cause "sudo" command that allows him to execute arbitrary command as a user with root privileges.
Successful vulnerability allows a malicious user get elevated privileges and trigger arbitrary command execution.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.