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CVE-2022-37705

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.7 EPSS 1.25% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2023-04-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2022-37705
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.7
EPSS
1.25%

Original NVD 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),