CVE-2022-37705
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 16, 2023
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 8, 2022
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),
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.amanda.org/
- https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
- https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
- FEDORA-2023-3d0619d767vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-1293196f34vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-e295804b3dvendor-advisory
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231203 [SECURITY] [DLA 3681-1] amanda security updatemailing-list
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html
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