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critical 10.0

CVE-2002-0048 in the critical feed json

Multiple signedness errors (mixed signed and unsigned numbers) in the I/O functions of rsync 2.4.6, 2.3.2, and other versions allow remote…

published 2002-02-18 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0048

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
34.0%
EPSS 34.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple signedness errors (mixed signed and unsigned numbers) in the I/O functions of rsync 2.4.6, 2.3.2, and other versions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code in the rsync client or server.

Patch / fix

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-2002-0048 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:018

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-399)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

34.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21242 rsync 2.3/2.4/2.5 - Signed Array Index Remote Code Execution remote, 2002-01-25
  • EDB-399 rsync 2.5.1 - Remote (2) remote, 2002-01-01
  • EDB-398 rsync 2.5.1 - Remote (1) remote, 2002-01-01

CVSS scores

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

References

Sources

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