An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. The "runtar" setuid root binary does not check for additional arguments supplied after --create, allowing users to manipulate commands and perform command injection as root.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | amanda | 2023-08-17 11:39 | ALAS-2023-1808 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | amanda | 2023-08-17 11:58 | ALAS2-2023-2218 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |