CVE-2022-37703

Published Sep 13, 2022

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 3.3
Impact score: 1.4
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity: LOW

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:amanda:amanda:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "97C10DDE-E81D-42F4-9A24-F1F11A2B7A6C"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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