CVE-2024-12088

Publication date 9 January 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in rsync. When using the `--safe-links` option, the rsync client fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination sent from the server contains another symbolic link within it. This results in a path traversal vulnerability, which may lead to arbitrary file write outside the desired directory.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

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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Notes

alexmurray

Affected function unsafe_symlink() is in rsync in all Ubuntu releases so assuming all are affected since this function hasn't changed upstream in the last 16 years

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N