CVE-2018-5764

HIGH7.5EPSS 13.1%

rsync - security update

Published: 1/17/2018Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The parse_arguments function in options.c in rsyncd in rsync before 3.1.3 does not prevent multiple --protect-args uses, which allows remote attackers to bypass an argument-sanitization protection mechanism.

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.1.3-r0
Debian/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.1.2-2.2
Debian/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.0.9-4+deb7u2
Debian/rsyncfrom 0, < 3.1.2-1+deb9u3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-5764
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5764