High severity · published Oct 24, 2018
CVE-2016-10730
An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1
7.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AM
Amanda · Zmanda
3.3.1 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10730
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10730
Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39244/
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