CVE-2022-37705

amanda: runtar: crafted arguments can lead to local privilege escalation

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

6.7

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 7, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Amanda. The runtar SUID binary executes /usr/bin/tar as root without properly validating its arguments, possibly leading to escalation of privileges from the regular user "amandabackup" to root.

Statement

This flaw has been rated Low on Red Hat Enterprise Linux since unprivileged users can't pass arbitrary arguments to the runtar SUID binary. By default, only users in the "disk" group can execute the runtar binary on RHEL.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management