usn-5921-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-03-06 12:11
Modified
2026-02-10 04:43
Summary
rsync vulnerabilities
Details

Koen van Hove discovered that the rsync client incorrectly validated filenames returned by servers. If a user or automated system were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could use this issue to write arbitrary files, and possibly escalate privileges.

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