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A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 16, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 4, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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),

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 16, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 16, 2023
Last updated Nov 4, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(86th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-37705

GHSA ID

GHSA-f6f6-98vp-w8mf

Source code

No known source code

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