CVE-2024-12747

Publication date 9 January 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
rsync 24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.2.7-1ubuntu1.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.1.3-8ubuntu0.8
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 3.1.2-2.1ubuntu1.6+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.1.1-3ubuntu1.3+esm3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.4+esm1

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.6 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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