# CVE-2024-12747: Rsync: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links

Status: published. Published: 2025-01-14. Updated: 2026-11-05.

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.

## Remediation

- workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability. (source: CNA: redhat)

## Affected products and versions

-  /  (rsync): ≥ 0; ≤ 3.3.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (rsync): ≥ 0:3.4.1-2.el10; < * (unaffected, rpm). Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (rsync): ≥ 0:3.1.3-21.el8_10; < * (unaffected, rpm). Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (rsync): ≥ 0:3.2.5-3.el9; < * (unaffected, rpm). Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Discovery 1.14 (discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9): ≥ 1.14.2-1748467619; < * (unaffected, rpm). Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rsync): Version range not reported. Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rsync): Version range not reported. Source: CNA: redhat
- Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 (openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9): Version range not reported. Source: CNA: redhat

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 5.6 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N; source: CNA: redhat

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: 0.39% as of 2026-11-04; percentile 32.73%

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact partial; source ADP: CISA-ADP

- Weaknesses: CWE-362

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470 (CNA: redhat; vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2600 (CNA: redhat; vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7050 (CNA: redhat; vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385 (CNA: redhat; vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747 (CNA: redhat; vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332968 (CNA: redhat; issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT)

- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657 (CNA: redhat)

- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/ (ADP: CVE)

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00008.html (ADP: CVE)

- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657 (ADP: CVE)

## Provenance

- CNA: redhat: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12747; retrieved 2026-11-05; source updated 2026-11-05

- FIRST EPSS: https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-12747; retrieved 2026-11-05; source updated Not reported

Revision: 4e59d7c1b76c68367aa959fe0d5fb54a5fc7b869462c74c59687204ff7ba9928

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