Access Restriction Bypass Affecting zmanda/amanda package, versions [0,3.3.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ZMANDAAMANDA-2369687
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Oct 2018

CVE-2016-10730  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zmanda/amanda to version 3.3.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data. It runs binaries with root permissions when parsing the command line argument --star-path.

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