CVE-2016-10730

amanda: Privilege escalation in amstar and amgtar via --*tar-path option

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.2

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 15, 2016

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data. It runs binaries with root permissions when parsing the command line argument --star-path.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-648 · Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs