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Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Apr 16, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-37705

CVE-2022-37705

Description

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),

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