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FKIE_CVE-2022-37704

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-04-16 01:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:55
Severity
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Amanda 3.5.1 allows privilege escalation from the regular user backup to root. The SUID binary located at /lib/amanda/rundump will execute /usr/sbin/dump as root with controlled arguments from the attacker which may lead to escalation of privileges, denial of service, and information disclosure.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.amanda.org/Product
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/197Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/205Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00025.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.amanda.org/Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/197Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/205Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00025.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
zmanda amanda 3.5.1
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