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CVE-2016-10730
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0
- Zmanda Amanda: 3.3.1
References
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