A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in which the backup user can acquire root privileges. The vulnerable component is the runtar SUID program, which is a wrapper to run /usr/bin/tar with specific arguments that are controllable by the attacker. This program mishandles the arguments passed to tar binary (it expects that the argument name and value are separated with a space; however, separating them with an equals sign is also supported),
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-37705 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.25%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 4.44% | 1.25% | -3.19% |
| 2 | 2026-06-05 | 4.79% | 4.44% | -0.36% |
| 3 | 2026-05-15 | — | 4.79% | — |
Full EPSS history (29 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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0.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2022-37705 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (amanda), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie): resolved 4. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-37705 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37705 |
suse
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high | CVE-2022-37705 severity important: SUSE including 3 source package names (amanda-2.5.2.1-188.11.1, amanda-3.5.1-bp154.3.3.1, amanda-3.5.2-3.1), 4 product×package rows across 4 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA, SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4, openSUSE Tumbleweed): Fixed 4. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37705/ |
ubuntu
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high | CVE-2022-37705 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (amanda), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 6, ignored 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-37705 |