CVE-2004-0792

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0792
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-10-20 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.4 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.1 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.2 All alpha All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.2 All arm All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.2 All intel All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.2 All m68k All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.2 All ppc All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.2 All sparc All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.3.2_1.3 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.0 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.1 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.3 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.4 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.5 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.6 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.4.8 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.0 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.1 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.2 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.3 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.4 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.5 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.6 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.5.7 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.6 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.6.1 All All All
Application Andrew Tridgell Rsync 2.6.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0042 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.net
rsync af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 samba.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- rsync: Potential information leakage af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
'TSSA-2004-020-ES - rsync' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
'LNSA-#2004-0017: rsync (Aug, 17 2004)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-538-1 rsync af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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