CVE-2022-37704
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37704
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-37704.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-37704
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2023-04-16T01:15:06Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-01T14:07:39.260865Z
- Severity
-
- 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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
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- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/197
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/205
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
- http://www.amanda.org/
- https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00025.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/
- https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-37704
Affected packages
Debian:11 / amanda
Package
- Name
- amanda
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/amanda?arch=source
Debian:12 / amanda
Package
- Name
- amanda
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/amanda?arch=source
Debian:13 / amanda
Package
- Name
- amanda
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/amanda?arch=source
Git / github.com/zmanda/amanda
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
subtag-2.*
subtag-2.6.0.beta1
subtag-2.6.0.beta2
subtag-3.*
subtag-3.5
subtag-3.5.1
subtag-community-3.*
subtag-community-3.5
subtag-community-3.5.1
tag-2.*
tag-2.5.2
tag-2.5.2.beta1
tag-2.5.x-perl
tag-2.6.0
tag-2.6.0.beta2
tag-2.6.1
tag-3.*
tag-3.1.x
tag-3.2.0.beta1
tag-3.2.x
tag-3.3.x
tag-3.4.x
tag-3.5-github-master
tag-3.5.1.internal
tag-3.5.rel
tag-3.5.x
tag-community-3.*
tag-community-3.5
tag-community-3.5.1
tag-community-3.5.2
tag-core-3.*
tag-core-3.6.rel