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CVE-2022-37705 Detail

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),


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.amanda.org/ CVE, MITRE Product 
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192 CVE, MITRE
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3 CVE, MITRE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html CVE, MITRE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/ CVE, MITRE
https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-37705
NVD Published Date:
04/15/2023
NVD Last Modified:
11/04/2025
Source:
MITRE