CVE-2022-37705A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in which the backup user can acquire root privileges. The vulnerable component is…
- 6.7MediumCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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),
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References13
- http://www.amanda.org/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-3d0619d767 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-1293196f34 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-e295804b3d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231203 [SECURITY] [DLA 3681-1] amanda security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-40319 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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