CVE-2024-12088 Information

Description

A flaw was found in rsync. When using the --safe-links option rsync fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination contains another symbolic link within it. This results in a path traversal vulnerability which may lead to arbitrary file write outside the desired directory.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12088 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330676 https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657