CVE-2024-12085
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
8.8%
94.9th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-908
Published 2025-01-14 · modified 2026-08-31
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
| Attack Vector | N | Network |
| Attack Complexity | L | Low |
| Privileges Required | N | None |
| User Interaction | N | None |
| Scope | U | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | H | High |
| Integrity | N | None |
| Availability | N | None |
Timeline
- 2025-01-14 — Published (NVD)
- 2026-08-31 — Last modified (NVD)
Description
A flaw was found in rsync which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time.
Affected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:6470
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6122
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0324
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0325
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0637
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0688
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0714
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0774
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0787
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0790
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0849
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0884
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0885
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1120
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1123
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1128
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1225
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1227
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1242
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1451
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21885
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2701
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12085
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330539
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00008.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0002/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952657
- exploit https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-p5pg-x43v-mvqj