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CVE-2022-37704

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-37704 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Amanda 3.5.1, affecting zmanda amanda products. A highly privileged local attacker can exploit a SUID binary to execute /usr/sbin/dump with controlled arguments, potentially leading to root-level access, denial of service, and information disclosure. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity but significant impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

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

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: amanda

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-37704Low

amanda: rundump: crafted arguments can lead to local privilege escalation

Feb 7, 2023

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html
github.com / MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704
Third Party Advisory
github.com / zmanda/amanda/issues/192
github.com / zmanda/amanda/pull/197
Patch
github.com / zmanda/amanda/pull/205
Patch
github.com / zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00025.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
marc.info
amanda.org
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