CVE-2017-17434

critical
Published 2017-12-06 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The daemon in rsync 3.1.2, and 3.1.3-development before 2017-12-03, does not check for fnamecmp filenames in the daemon_filter_list data structure (in the recv_files function in receiver.c) and also does not apply the sanitize_paths protection mechanism to pathnames found in "xname follows" strings (in the read_ndx_and_attrs function in rsync.c), which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17434

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17434.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201801-21

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed3.1.3pre1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.1.2-2.1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.1.2-2.1
debian debianforkyfixed3.1.2-2.1
debian debiansidfixed3.1.2-2.1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.1.2-2.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sambarsync{"endIncluding":"3.1.2"}

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.