CVE-2024-12087: Almalinux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal vulnerability exists in rsync. It stems from behavior enabled by the `--inc-recursive` option, a default-enabled option for many client options and can be enabled by the server even if not explicitly enabled by the client. When using the `--inc-recursive` option, a lack of proper symlink verification coupled with deduplication checks occurring on a per-file-list basis could allow a server to write files outside of the client's intended destination directory. A malicious server could write malicious files to arbitrary locations named after valid directories/paths on the client.

Affected products

Almalinux Almalinux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
Archlinux Arch Linux: affected versions not specified
Gentoo Linux: affected versions not specified
Nixos Nixos: before 24.11 (fixed in 24.11)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 9.6 only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64: version 8.0_aarch64 only; version 9.0_aarch64 only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 Eus: version 9.6_aarch64 only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems: version 8.0_s390x only; version 9.0_s390x only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems Eus: version 9.6_s390x only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: version 8.0_ppc64le only; version 9.0_ppc64le only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus: version 9.6_ppc64le only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 9.6 only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For SAP Solutions: version 9.6_ppc64le only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update Services For SAP Solutions: version 9.6 only
Samba Rsync: up to and including 3.3.0
Suse Suse Linux: affected versions not specified
Tritondatacenter Smartos: before 20250123 (fixed in 20250123)

Published 2025-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-30.