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CVE-2026-53796

rsync < 3.5.0 TOCTOU Race Condition via Destination Directory Handling PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

rsync before 3.5.0 contains a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the non-daemon receiver's destination directory handling that allows an attacker who can manipulate destination path parent components to redirect file writes to unintended locations. Attackers can substitute a symlink for a component of the destination path between the path resolution and chdir() call, causing the receiver's working directory to be established outside the intended destination tree so that subsequent relative-path file writes land in unintended filesystem locations.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
RsyncProject / rsyncaffected 0 through 3.4.4; unaffected 3.5.0

CWE

CWE-59, CWE-367

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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