CVE-2004-0792: Andrew Tridgell Rsync

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 2.3.1 only; version 2.3.2 only; version 2.3.2_1.2 only; version 2.3.2_1.3 only; version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; …

Published 2004-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.