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CVE-2004-0792

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Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10561

http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0042/

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_26_rsync.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:083

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-17.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-538

http://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109277141223839&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-10-20

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00839

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