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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2016-10730 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-2016-1728

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
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. 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.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10730

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-2016-10730 updated cvss 4.2

amanda: Privilege escalation in amstar and amgtar via --*tar-path option

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 amanda, amanda-libs, amanda-client, amanda-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 amanda Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 amanda, amanda-client, amanda-server 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

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • exploit-db.com https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39244/ 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-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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