When rsync is run w/o chroot, symlinks that point outside daemon's root can be created
Published Dec 1, 2007
9.3
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 4.14%
Description
rsync before 3.0.0pre6, when running a writable rsync daemon that is not using chroot, allows remote attackers to access restricted files via unknown vectors that cause rsync to create a symlink that points outside of the module's hierarchy.
Affected products
No data.
Running on/with
- 8.1
- 9.0
- 9.1
- 10.0
- 10.1
- 10.2
- 11.0
- 12.0
- 2.3.1
- 2.3.2
- 2.3.2_1.2alpha
- 2.3.2_1.2arm
- 2.3.2_1.2intel
- 2.3.2_1.2m68k
- 2.3.2_1.2ppc
- 2.3.2_1.2sparc
- 2.3.2_1.3
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.1
- 2.4.3
- 2.4.4
- 2.4.5
- 2.4.6
- 2.4.8
- 2.5.0
- 2.5.1
- 2.5.2
- 2.5.3
- 2.5.4
- 2.5.5
- 2.5.6
- 2.5.7
- 2.6
- 2.6.1
- 2.6.2
- 2.6.5
- 2.6.6
- 2.6.7
- 2.6.8
- 2.6.9
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. Versions of rsync as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 and 5 behave as expected and that behavior was well documented.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 4.14% (0.04136) | 90.53th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.14% (0.04136) | 89.49th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 6.37% (0.06374) | 90.07th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 13.78% (0.13783) | 90.46th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 19, 2025 | 6.37% (0.06374) | 89.81th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 4.67% (0.04668) | 88.59th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.97% (0.01969) | 89.23th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 2.69% (0.02691) | 90.58th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 4, 2024 | 2.60% (0.02597) | 90.21th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 6, 2023 | 2.32% (0.02316) | 88.52th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.14% (0.02144) | 87.48th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 85.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 84.01th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.78% (0.03779) | 67.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (21)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://rsync.samba.org/security.html#s3_0_0 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27853 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27863 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28412 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28457 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31326 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61005 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019012 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/500/sol15549.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0257 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:011 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487991/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26638 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4057 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6199 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407161 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6199
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6199
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