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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - amanda: Privilege escalation in amstar and amgtar via --*tar-path option (CVE-2016-10730)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The version of amanda installed on the remote host is prior to 3.3.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2218 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client     installation. The runtar setuid root binary does not check for additional arguments supplied after
    --create, allowing users to manipulate commands and perform command injection as root. (CVE-2016-10729)

    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. (CVE-2016-10730)

    AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument     checking for runtar.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37705. (CVE-2023-30577)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199187	RHEL 7 : amanda (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196389	RHEL 7 : amanda (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
180092	Amazon Linux 2 : amanda (ALAS-2023-2218)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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