CVE-2022-37703

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

In Amanda 3.5.1, an information leak vulnerability was found in the calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to know if a directory exists or not anywhere in the fs. The binary will use `opendir()` as root directly without checking the path, letting the attacker provide an arbitrary path.

Affected products

Amanda: 3.5.1

References

http://www.amanda.org/
https://bugs.gentoo.org/870037
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.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/
http://www.amanda.org/
https://bugs.gentoo.org/870037
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3

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