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
- Red Hat Discovery 1.14 — versions sha256:492e412759cf0eedfa5b557f7b0865f8864f84d0ed75e11dc8d7a840837d9644, 1.14.2-1748467619
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — versions 0:3.4.1-2.el10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — versions 0:3.1.3-21.el8_10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — versions 0:3.2.5-3.el9
- Red Hat In-vehicle Operating System 1
- Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)
- secalert@redhat.com
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
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.