vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-37704: amanda: rundump: crafted arguments can lead to local privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 16, 2023
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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