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CVE-2022-37703

Date: September 12, 2022

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

3.3

Related Resources (15)

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37703

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37703

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html

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Url: https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703

Url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/870037

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/

Url: http://www.amanda.org/

Url: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3

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Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-37703

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-37703

Severity Score

3.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

CWE-668

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-22

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.3
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

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CVE-2022-37703

Date: September 12, 2022

Language: C

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CVSS v3.1

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