HIGH 7.4 Microsoft

CVE-2022-29154

An issue was discovered in rsync before 3.2.5 that allows malicious remote servers to write arbitrary files inside the directories of connecting peers. The server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However the rsync client performs insufficient validation of file names. A malicious rsync server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the rsync client target directory and subdirectories (for example overwrite the .ssh/authorized_keys file).

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Aug: An issue was discovered in rsync before 3.2.5 that allows malicious remote servers to write arbitrary files inside the directories of connecting peers. The server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However the rsync client performs insufficient validation of file names. A malicious rsync server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the rsync client target directory and subdirectories (for example overwrite the .ssh/authorized_keys file).

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Published: 2022-08-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-03
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.4 was published on 2022-08-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 rsync 3.1.3-6 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 rsync 3.2.5-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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