CVE-2024-12747Rsync: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links
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A flaw was found in rsync. This vulnerability arises from a race condition during rsync's handling of symbolic links. Rsync's default behavior when encountering symbolic links is to skip them. If an attacker replaced a regular file with a symbolic link at the right time, it was possible to bypass the default behavior and traverse symbolic links. Depending on the privileges of the rsync process, an attacker could leak sensitive information, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- CVSS
- 5.6 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 21, 2026
Affected products
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux | from 0:3.4.1-2.el10 not affected | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 1.14 redhat:discovery | from 1.14.2-1748467619 not affected | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 redhat:openshift | 4 | CNA record |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2600vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7050vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332968issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00008.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
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