CVE-2026-43619 PUBLISHED

Rsync < 3.4.3 Symlink Race Condition via Path-Based Syscalls

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 20.05.2026 Updated: 20.05.2026

Rsync version 3.4.2 and prior contain symlink race condition vulnerabilities in path-based system calls including chmod, lchown, utimes, rename, unlink, mkdir, symlink, mknod, link, rmdir, and lstat that allow local attackers to redirect operations to files outside the exported rsync module. Attackers with local filesystem access can exploit the timing window between path resolution and syscall execution by swapping symlinks to apply sender-supplied permissions, ownership, timestamps, or filenames to arbitrary files outside the intended module boundary on rsync daemons configured with 'use chroot = no'.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor RsyncProject
Product rsync
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.4.3 (excl.)

Credits

  • Andrew Tridgell (@tridge) finder

References

Problem Types

  • Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE
  • Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') CWE