Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10730

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-10-24 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:30:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.