# Rsync: --safe-links option bypass leads to path traversal

CVE record · `CVE-2024-12088`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-12088`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 6.5 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** redhat
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-22](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md)
- **Technologies:** [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10.md) · [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8.md) · [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-9.md) · [Red Hat Discovery 1.14](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-discovery-1-14.md) · [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6.md) · [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4.md)
- **Published:** 14 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Nov 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 14 Jan 2025, 17:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Not given. Product: Not given.
  - affected: `3.3.0 and earlier` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
  - unaffected: `0:3.4.1-2.el10 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
  - unaffected: `0:3.1.3-21.el8_10 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  - unaffected: `0:3.2.5-3.el9 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
  - unaffected: `0:3.2.5-3.el9 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Discovery 1.14.
  - unaffected: `1.14.2-1748467619 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
  - No versions given
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  - No versions given
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `rsync`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.
  - No versions given
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 6.5 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (redhat)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.046, the 91st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 14 Jan 2025, 17:38 UTC: [Confirmed by the CVE List](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12088)
- 14 Jan 2025, 18:15 UTC: [Confirmed by NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12088)

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-12088](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12088)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-12088](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12088)

### References from the CNA

- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2600> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7050> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8385> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12088> (vdb-entry, redhat)
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330676> (issue-tracking, redhat)
- <https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657>

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