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CVE-2026-53800

5.7 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

rsync before 3.5.0 contains a symlink race condition vulnerability in the --remove-source-files feature that allows attackers with symlink creation access to cause arbitrary file deletion. Attackers can atomically substitute a symlink for a source file between transfer completion and the unlink() call, causing rsync to delete the symlink target rather than the intended source file.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.7 · sambaNVD modified 2026-10-23 18:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 3