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CVE-2024-12747: Rsync: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links
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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-12747
Affected Products
Vendor: Red Hat
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 17.78% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-02-12 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332968
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657