What is CVE-2016-10730?

CVE-2016-10730 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zmanda Amanda, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-10730?

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

Vulnerability in Zmanda Amanda

CVE-2016-10730

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (43.2th 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
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10730?: CVE-2016-10730 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zmanda Amanda, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-10730?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.