What is CVE-2016-10729?

CVE-2016-10729 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zmanda Amanda, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-10729?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

RCE in Zmanda Amanda

CVE-2016-10729

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.012 (64.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Zmanda Amanda — versions 3.3.1
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10729?: CVE-2016-10729 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zmanda Amanda, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-10729?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.