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CVE-2022-37703

LOW CVSS: 3.3 Published: 2022-09-13 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Amanda Amanda

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References