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CVE-2026-53800

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2026-08-13 Modified: 2026-08-14

Description

rsync before 3.5.0 contains a symlink race condition vulnerability in the --remove-source-files feature that allows attackers with symlink creation access to cause arbitrary file deletion. Attackers can atomically substitute a symlink for a source file between transfer completion and the unlink() call, causing rsync to delete the symlink target rather than the intended source file.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-59, CWE-367

References