# CVE-2023-30577: AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument checking for runtar.c, a different

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-26 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument checking for runtar.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37705.

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.4
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/security/advisories/GHSA-crrw-v393-h5q3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YYGJJARVLRBMNWSNXKZBXZNX3M53OVPA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7OITHG7FBD7HQRX2XT75GSGWB3D6XSZU/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html

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