Security Advisory
CVE-2016-10730
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
October 24, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory