Medium severity5.6NVD Advisory· Published Jan 14, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2024-12747
CVE-2024-12747
Description
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.
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Affected products
32- osv-coords30 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/rsync@3.3.0-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:rpm/almalinux/rsyncpkg:rpm/almalinux/rsync-daemonpkg:rpm/almalinux/rsync-rrsyncpkg:rpm/opensuse/rsync&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/rsync&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/rsync&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3
< 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.1+ 29 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.3-21.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.3-21.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.5-3.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.7-150600.3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.4.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150000.4.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150000.4.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150000.4.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150000.4.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.7-150600.3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.3-3.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150000.4.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150000.4.33.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.3-3.22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.7-4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-slfo.1.1_3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.3-150400.3.17.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2600nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7050nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385nvd
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00008.htmlnvd
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/nvd
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657nvd
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