CVE-2022-37705 (GCVE-0-2022-37705)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-16 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 16:09
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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),
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