CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10730
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
An 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.
Affected configurations
• zmanda amanda 3.3.1
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39244/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39244/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry