Avamar vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product15 versions
The short answer

Avamar is made by Emc. We track 10 published vulnerabilities listed under that exact name, across 15 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. Emc lists newer releases under their own names, such as Avamar Server, so check those pages too.

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Other names

Is Avamar listed under other names? Yes.

Emc also lists Avamar under more specific names, such as Avamar Server and Avamar Server Virtual Edition. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. If you run one of these, open its page for its own exploited flaws.

Known exploited

Which Avamar vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Avamar's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Avamar flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 2.5%

    Unspecified vulnerability in EMC Avamar before 5.0.4-30 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via unknown vectors.

    CVSS8.5Published16 Mar 2011
  2. 2.4%

    Unspecified vulnerability in EMC Avamar 4.1.x and 5.0 before SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (gsan service hang) by sending a crafted message using TCP.

    CVSS7.1Published28 May 2010
  3. 1.6%

    EMC Avamar 6.0.x, 6.1.x, and 7.0.x in Avamar Data Store (ADS) GEN4(S) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE), when Password Hardening before 2.0.0.4 is enabled, uses UNIX DES crypt for password hashing, which makes it...

    CVSS4.3Published25 Oct 2014
  4. 1.6%

    The web-restore interface in Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) in EMC Avamar through 7.1.2 and 7.2.x through 7.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to read or delete directories via a Linux...

    CVSS8.8Published6 Jul 2016
  5. 1.1%

    EMC Avamar 4.x, 5.0.x, and 6.0.x before 6.0.0-592 allows remote authenticated users to modify client data or obtain sensitive information about product activities by leveraging privileged access to a different domain.

    CVSS7.7Published19 Sep 2011
  6. 1.1%

    The service utility in EMC Avamar 5.x before 5.0.4 uses cleartext to transmit event details in (1) service requests and (2) e-mail messages, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by...

    CVSS3.5Published16 Mar 2011
  7. 0.9%

    The web-based file-restore interface in EMC Avamar Server before 6.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

    CVSS3.5Published3 May 2013
  8. 0.9%

    EMC Avamar Client before 6.1.101-89 does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle...

    CVSS9.3Published3 May 2013
  9. 0.6%

    EMC Avamar Client for VMware 6.1 stores the cleartext server root password on the proxy client, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging "network access" to the proxy client.

    CVSS3.3Published31 Oct 2012
  10. 0.3%

    EMC Avamar Client 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x on HP-UX and Mac OS X, and the EMC Avamar plugin 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x for Oracle, uses world-writable permissions for cache directories, which allows local users to gain privileges...

    CVSS7.2Published21 Jan 2013
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We track 10 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Avamar, across 15 versions.

None of Avamar's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Emc also lists Avamar under more specific names, such as Avamar Server and Avamar Server Virtual Edition. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. Open the release you run to see its own list.

Create a Precursor Intelligence account and track Avamar. We match it against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and keep watching, so you hear about new ones as soon as we know, by email, in the app or by webhook.