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high 7.8

CVE-2016-10729 json

An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1.

published 2018-10-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1727

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • amanda Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:3.3.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10729

  • amanda SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 2.5.2.1-188.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:4121-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10729 updated cvss 4.2

amanda: Privilege escalation in runtar via --rsh-command option

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 amanda Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 amanda, amanda-client, amanda-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 amanda, amanda-libs, amanda-client, amanda-server
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 amanda, amanda-libs, amanda-client, amanda-server
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • exploit-db.com https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39217/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command

References

Sources

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