{"id":"CVE-2024-12084","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-12084","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T20:48:10.135Z","title":"A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsync daemon.","description":"A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the rsync daemon. This issue is due to improper handling of attacker-controlled checksum lengths (s2length) in the code. When MAX_DIGEST_LEN exceeds the fixed SUM_LENGTH (16 bytes), an attacker can write out of bounds in the sum2 buffer.","published":"2025-01-15T15:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T17:17:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-122","CWE-787"],"affected":["samba/rsync","almalinux/almalinux","archlinux/arch linux","gentoo/linux","nixos/nixos","novell/suse linux","tritondatacenter/smartos","redhat/enterprise linux"],"epss":{"score":0.72514,"percentile":0.99442,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 72.5%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12084","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330527","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/6","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12084","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}