CVE-2024-12747 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332968 https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657