CVE-2023-30577

Publication date 26 July 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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.

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Why is this CVE medium priority?

requires access to the non-default backup group to exploit

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
amanda 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1:3.5.1-11ubuntu0.23.10.1
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:3.5.1-2ubuntu0.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:3.5.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored regressions likely
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

sbeattie

requires access to the non-default backup group to exploit upstream fixing commits incorrectly refer to CVE-2023-30547

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
amanda

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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