PoC Index

CVE-2022-37705

MEDIUM 6.7EPSS 1.3%

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),

CVSS v3.1
6.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 67th percentile
Published
2023-04-16
Updated
2025-11-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

References

Related