Security advisory

{
  "id": "fb327be2fb08b14fbe0b57ff89eb58b90edc6f3733222a53d9842d9d126f378e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37703",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-37703",
    "summary": "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 without checking the path, letting the attacker provide an arbitrary path.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-37703",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-37703",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-37703"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/zmanda/amanda",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "aed518ee41a70042837fbc15579797526febc805"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "60032f14aeefe63d2b92e01496667315430c5923"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:amanda:amanda:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.5.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.5.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "60032f14aeefe63d2b92e01496667315430c5923"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "tag-community-3.5.3"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.5.1",
            "tag-community-3.5.2",
            "tag-core-3.6.rel",
            "tag-community-3.5.1",
            "subtag-community-3.5.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-37703.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.366517206Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.gentoo.org/870037",
        "https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/37xxx/CVE-2022-37703.json",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37703",
        "https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/37xxx/CVE-2022-37703.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-37703",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 496105,
  "published_at": "2022-09-13T00:00:00+00:00"
}