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critical 10.0

CVE-2007-6200 json

Unspecified vulnerability in rsync before 3.0.0pre6, when running a writable rsync daemon, allows remote attackers to bypass exclude, exclu…

published 2007-12-01 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-6168

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in rsync before 3.0.0pre6, when running a writable rsync daemon, allows remote attackers to bypass exclude, exclude_from, and filter and read or write hidden files via (1) symlink, (2) partial-dir, (3) backup-dir, and unspecified (4) dest options.

Patch / fix

  • rsync Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.9-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6200

  • rsync RHEL 5 3.0.6-4.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:0999

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-6200 updated cvss 4.3

rsync excluded content access restrictions bypass via symlinks

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 rsync
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) rsync 3.0.6-4.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) rsync 3.0.6-4.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0999

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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