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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-10-24T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:30:20.169Z

Reserved: 2018-10-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-10730

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-10-24T21:29:00.360

Modified: 2019-01-09T19:56:08.183

Link: CVE-2016-10730

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-01-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10730 - Bugzilla