CVE-2024-12088: Almalinux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in rsync. When using the `--safe-links` option, the rsync client fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination sent from the server contains another symbolic link within it. This results in a path traversal vulnerability, which may lead to arbitrary file write outside the desired directory.

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)
• Novell Suse Linux: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Discovery: version 1.14 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 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
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only
• Samba Rsync: up to and including 3.3.0
• Tritondatacenter Smartos: before 20250123 (fixed in 20250123)

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