Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-37703

Low

Published: 13 September 2022

Published
13 September 2022
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0209 84.4th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-37703 is a low-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Amanda Amanda. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Amanda 3.5.1, an information leak vulnerability was found in the calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to know if a directory exists or not anywhere in the fs. The binary will use `opendir()` as root directly…

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without checking the path, letting the attacker provide an arbitrary path.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

amanda
amanda
3.5.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References