CVE-2016-0921 — Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 use weak permissions for unspecified directories, which allows local users to obtain root access by replacing a script with a Trojan horse program

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Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 use weak permissions for unspecified directories, which allows local users to obtain root access by replacing a script with a Trojan horse program

Published Sep 21, 2016

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.39%

Description

Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 use weak permissions for unspecified directories, which allows local users to obtain root access by replacing a script with a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.39% 0.00392

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00392

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.39% (0.00392)	30.98th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.39% (0.00392)	30.77th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.10% (0.00104)	26.05th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Sep/31
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93032
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036844
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Link	Providers	Tags
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Sep/31		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93032		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036844		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner dell

Published Sep 21, 2016

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Dec 17, 2015

Link CVE-2016-0921

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-0921

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-0921