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Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rsync  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-RSYNC-12312582
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed2 Aug 2022
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Introduced: 2 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-29154  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rsync package and not the rsync package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in rsync before 3.2.5 that allows malicious remote servers to write arbitrary files inside the directories of connecting peers. The server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the rsync client performs insufficient validation of file names. A malicious rsync server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the rsync client target directory and subdirectories (for example, overwrite the .ssh/authorized_keys file).