Detections
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CVE-2024-12087
medium
Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in rsync. It stems from behavior enabled by the `--inc-recursive` option, a default-enabled option for many client options and can be enabled by the server even if not explicitly enabled by the client. When using the `--inc-recursive` option, a lack of proper symlink verification coupled with deduplication checks occurring on a per-file-list basis could allow a server to write files outside of the client's intended destination directory. A malicious server could write malicious files to arbitrary locations named after valid directories/paths on the client.
References
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/3
https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/google-cloud-researchers-uncover-flaws.html
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330672