🛡️ CVE-2022-29154
🟠 CVSS 7.4 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-20 NVD
7.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An issue was discovered in rsync before 3.2.5 that allows malicious remote servers to write arbitrary files inside the directories of connecting peers. The server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the rsync client performs insufficient validation of file names. A malicious rsync server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the rsync client target directory and subdirectories (for example, overwrite the .ssh/authorized_keys file).

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-02
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora — —
rsync — 3.2.5

References

Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/02/1
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/tags
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/02/1
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/tags

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