Race Condition Affecting rsync package, versions [0,3.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RSYNC-8626906
  • published15 Jan 2025
  • disclosed14 Jan 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-12747  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rsync to version 3.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition during rsync's handling of symbolic links which allows an attacker to bypass the default behavior and traverse symbolic links.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1