Security restrictions bypass in Rsync - CVE-2018-5764

 

Security restrictions bypass in Rsync - CVE-2018-5764

Published: January 25, 2018 / Updated: January 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10307
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5764
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Samba
Affected software:
Rsync

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security controls on the target system.

The weakness exists in the parse_arguments() function in 'options.c' due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send multiple '--protect-args' values and  bypass the argument-sanitization protection mechanism.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-5764

Update to version 3.1.3.

Sources