| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Amanda. This affects an unknown function of the file runtar. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-37705. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Amanda (affected version unknown). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown functionality of the file runtar. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
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),
The weakness was released 03/11/2023. The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-37705 since 08/08/2022. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
Name
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3
VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.8
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NVD Base Score: 6.7
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/08/2022 🔍03/11/2023 🔍
03/11/2023 🔍
11/06/2025 🔍
Sources
Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.comStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2022-37705 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-37705
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-222846
Entry
Created: 03/11/2023 09:12Updated: 11/06/2025 01:37
Changes: 03/11/2023 09:12 (35), 11/06/2025 01:37 (27)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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