Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting amanda package, versions <1:3.5.1-10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.99% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-AMANDA-3244427
  • published23 Jan 2023
  • disclosed16 Apr 2023

Introduced: 23 Jan 2023

CVE-2022-37705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable amanda to version 1:3.5.1-10 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream amanda package and not the amanda package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1