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Vulnerability · Published Sep 13, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-37703

Low 3.3

In plain English

A low-severity security flaw in the amanda package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)3.3Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

In Amanda 3.5.1, an information leak vulnerability was found in the calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12amanda1:3.5.1-10DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37703
Debian:13amanda1:3.5.1-10DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37703
Debian:14amanda1:3.5.1-10DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37703
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSamanda1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.1USN-5966-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSamanda1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.3USN-5966-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSamanda1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.3UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37703

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References