CVE-2022-37705
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in which the backup user can acquire root privileges.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in which the backup user can acquire root privileges. The vulnerable component is the runtar SUID program, which is a wrapper to run /usr/bin/tar with specific arguments that are controllable by the attacker. This program mishandles the arguments passed to tar binary (it expects that the argument name and value are separated with a space; however, separating them with an equals sign is also supported),
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.26% probability · 68th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-88
- Affected
- zmanda/amanda
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.amanda.org/Product
- https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194Patch
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196Patch
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204Patch
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/
- https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
- http://www.amanda.org/Product
- https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194Patch
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196Patch
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204Patch
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/
- https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.