CVE-2022-37704

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

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.

Affected products

Zmanda Amanda: 3.5.1

References

http://www.amanda.org/
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/197
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/205
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
http://www.amanda.org/

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