CVE-2016-10730

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-10730
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-24 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-01-09 19:56:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data. It runs binaries with root permissions when parsing the command line argument --star-path.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Zmanda Amanda 3.3.1 All All All
Application Zmanda Amanda 3.3.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Amanda 3.3.1 - 'amstar' Command Injection Privilege Escalation EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 355841 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for amanda : ALAS2-2023-2218

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