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CVE-2022-37703

amanda: information leak (discovery of directory existence)

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 13, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An information leak vulnerability was found in Amanda in the calcsize SUID binary. This flaw allows an attacker to know if a directory exists or not anywhere in the fs. The binary will use opendir() as root directly without checking the path, letting the attacker provide an arbitrary path.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 2.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')