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…

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.004 (29.5th 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.