CVE-2022-37704

Impact

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

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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/
• 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.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