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CVE-2022-37703

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-37703 is an information leak vulnerability affecting Amanda 3.5.1, specifically within the calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can exploit this flaw to determine the existence of arbitrary directories on the filesystem due to the binary's direct use of opendir() as root without path validation. Rated with a CVSS score of 3.3 (Low), this vulnerability has a local attack vector, low complexity, and a limited impact of information disclosure. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:amanda:amanda:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0070 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 1,509 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: amanda

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-37703Low

amanda: information leak (discovery of directory existence)

Sep 13, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html
bugs.gentoo.org / 870037
Third Party Advisory
github.com / MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703
Third Party Advisory
github.com / zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2
amanda.org
Vendor Advisory