Answer in brief
CVE-2024-12747 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.6) vulnerability in Rsync: race condition in rsync handling symbolic links. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 (generic), Red Hat/rhcos (generic), rsync (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.6. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 (generic), Red Hat/rhcos (generic), rsync (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhcosgeneric | * | Not reported |
| rsyncgeneric | >=0 <=3.3.0 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jan 14, 2025
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 3, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jun 25, 2026
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.
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