Vulnerability in Red Hat Discovery 1.14

CVE-2024-12747

A flaw was found in rsync. This vulnerability arises from a race condition during rsync's handling of symbolic links. Rsync's default behavior when encountering symbolic links is to skip them. If an attacker replaced a regular file with a symbolic link at the right time, it was possible to bypass the default behavior and traverse symbolic links. Depending on the privileges of the rsync process, an attacker could leak sensitive information, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12747?
CVE-2024-12747 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Discovery 1.14, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2025-01-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-12747?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12747 known to be exploited?
3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.