CVE-2026-29518

HIGH

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 40/100

Published: 2026-05-20 Modified: 2026-11-08 First seen: 2026-11-08 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local

AC: High

PR: Low

UI: None

AT: None

VC: High

VI: High

VA: High

Description

Rsync versions before 3.4.3 contain a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in daemon file handling that allows attackers to redirect file writes outside intended directories by replacing parent directory components with symbolic links. Attackers with write access to a module path can exploit this race condition to create or overwrite arbitrary files, potentially modifying sensitive system files and achieving privilege escalation when the daemon runs with elevated privileges. This vulnerability can only be triggered if the chroot setting is false.