CVE-2024-12747
This vulnerability arises from a race condition during rsync's handling of symbolic links.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.38% probability · 32th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2600
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7050
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385
- 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
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.