CVE-2026-53798

A privilege confusion vulnerability in rsync's name-converter subprocess allows a local attacker to achieve privilege escalation. By manipulating the subprocess to return empty values for uid or gid lookups, the attacker forces rsync to incorrectly interpret these as root uid/gid 0. Consequently,...

CVE-2026-53798

rsync before 3.5.0 contains a privilege confusion vulnerability in the name-converter subprocess uid/gid mapping that allows local attackers to cause transferred files to be owned by root by influencing name-converter responses to return empty values. When the name-converter subprocess returns an...