CVE-2022-37704

6.7 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.7) in zmanda amanda. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Amanda 3.5.1 allows privilege escalation from the regular user backup to root. The SUID binary located at /lib/amanda/rundump will execute /usr/sbin/dump as root with controlled arguments from the attacker which may lead to escalation of privileges, denial of service, and information disclosure.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-77
Published: 2023-04-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

zmanda:amanda

References

http://www.amanda.org/
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/197
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/205

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