CVE-2022-37705

MEDIUM

Zmanda Amanda - Privilege Escalation

Title source: rule

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),

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 3 stars
by MaherAzzouzi · poc
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0340
EPSS Percentile 87.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-88
Status published

Affected Products (1)

zmanda/amanda

Timeline

Published Apr 16, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026