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CVE-2026-53797

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2026-08-13 Modified: 2026-08-13

Description

rsync before 3.5.0 contains a symlink race condition vulnerability in the sender's source tree traversal that allows an attacker who can manipulate a parent directory of the source tree to redirect file reads to unintended paths. Attackers can atomically replace a parent directory component with a symlink pointing outside the source root between path resolution and file open operations to disclose file contents outside the intended transfer root.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-59, CWE-367

References