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title: "CVE-2024-12747: Rsync: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747/
description: "CVE-2024-12747 (rsync): A flaw was found in rsync. This vulnerability arises from a race condition during rsync's handling of symbolic links. Rsync's…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-01-14
date_modified: 2026-10-21
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2024-12747"
kev: false
cvss: 5.6
epss: 0.00385
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
---

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

**Signal:** Normal patch cycle. No exploitation signal; fix it in your next routine update if you are affected. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 0.4% , percentile 31: FIRST’s model estimates a 0.4% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (low). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Needs local access needed. Lower urgency for most teams unless an attacker could already run code on the machine.
- Editorial verdict: Check exposure. rsync: Six Flaws Incl. Daemon Heap Overflow (CVE-2024-12084) — Distros shipped fixes in January 2025 and there is no known exploitation, but internet-facing rsync daemons have since needed two more security releases, so verify you run a current rsync rather than just 3.4.0.

## What it is

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.

## Affected products (CVE record)

-  rsync: <= 3.3.0
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 1.14: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: see advisory
- Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: see advisory

## Severity

- redhat CVSS 3.1: 5.6 `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable no , technical impact partial .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 31.

## Sources

- [RHBA-2025:6470](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470)
- [RHSA-2025:2600](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2600)
- [RHSA-2025:7050](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7050)
- [RHSA-2025:8385](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2024-12747](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12747)
- [NVD entry CVE-2024-12747](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12747)
- [access.redhat.com](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12747)
- [RHBZ#2332968](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332968)
- [kb.cert.org](https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657)
- [security.netapp.com](https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/)
- [lists.debian.org](https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00008.html)
- [kb.cert.org](https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657)

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