CVE-2026-29518

A flaw was found in rsync. An rsync daemon configured with "use chroot = no" is exposed to a time-of-check / time-of-use race on parent path components. A local attacker with write access to a module can replace a parent directory component with a symlink between the receiver's check and its open...

CVE-2026-43619

A flaw was found in rsync. A local attacker with filesystem access on the daemon host can exploit a symlink race vulnerability CWE-367 Time-of-check to time-of-use in rsync daemons configured with 'use chroot = no'. This allows the attacker to redirect path-based system calls, such as chmod,...

CVE-2026-43619

Rsync version 3.4.2 and prior contain symlink race condition vulnerabilities in path-based system calls including chmod, lchown, utimes, rename, unlink, mkdir, symlink, mknod, link, rmdir, and lstat that allow local attackers to redirect operations to files outside the exported rsync module...

PT-2026-42053

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rsync versions prior to 3.4.3 Description A symlink race condition exists in path-based system calls, including chmod, lchown, utimes, rename, unlink, mkdir, symlink, mknod, link, rmdir, and lstat. Local attackers with filesystem access can...

August 2004 Security Advisory

August 2004 Security Advisory August 12th, 2004 Background There is a path-sanitizing bug that affects daemon mode in all recent rsync versions including 2.6.2 but only if chroot is disabled. It does NOT affect the normal send/receive filenames that specify what files should be transferred this i...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2002:009)

Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team performed an audit on the rsync tool and discovered that in several places signed and unsigned numbers were mixed, with the end result being insecure code. These flaws could be abused by remote users to write 0 bytes into rsync's memory and trick rsync...