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Advisory severityMedium5.6Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2024-12747] Rsync: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-12747 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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CVE-2024-12747
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxRed Hat Enterprise Linux
Open source advisory

Summary

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. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-362. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Discovery 1.14; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.

Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat fixing advisory: RHBA-2025:6470, RHSA-2025:2600, RHSA-2025:7050, RHSA-2025:8385.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: rsync.

Is CVE-2024-12747 exploited?

No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2024-12747 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12747?

Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:

  • rsync-0:3.4.1-2.el10
  • rsync-0:3.1.3-21.el8_10
  • rsync-0:3.2.5-3.el9
  • discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:1.14.2-1748467619
  • RHBA-2025:6470
  • RHSA-2025:2600
  • RHSA-2025:7050
  • RHSA-2025:8385

Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 20 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • rsync-0:3.4.1-2.el10
  • rsync-0:3.1.3-21.el8_10
  • rsync-0:3.2.5-3.el9
  • discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:1.14.2-1748467619
  • RHBA-2025:6470
  • RHSA-2025:2600
  • RHSA-2025:7050
  • RHSA-2025:8385

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 20 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 20 days ago·verify at source

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