CVE-2024-12747

Publication date 9 January 2025

Last updated 15 January 2025


Ubuntu priority

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
Vulnerable
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
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

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References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7206-1
    • rsync vulnerabilities
    • 14 January 2025

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