CVE-2004-0792

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.

Affected products

Andrew Tridgell Rsync: 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.2_1.2, 2.3.2_1.3, 2.4.0, 2.4.1 (+16)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109277141223839&w=2
http://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-538
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:083
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_26_rsync.html
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0042/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10561
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109268147522290&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109277141223839&w=2
http://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04

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