CVE-2026-70460

rsync 2.3.3 before 3.5.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows a malicious sender to escape the module root by exploiting symlinks within the module file tree when using --partial-dir or --backup-dir options. Attackers with write access to place a symlink under the module root, or who can exploit a pre-existing trusted symlink, can direct file writes to locations outside the intended module root, achieving arbitrary file write relative to the module root parent.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-22",
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/70xxx/CVE-2026-70460.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rsyncproject/rsync

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/rsyncproject/rsync

Events

Introduced

461c6de1a8f2d6eac44e607c6862f356915e579d

Fixed

471e17dc0d68233db84db11be82c9f62f4661214

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "2.3.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.4.4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandardRange"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v3.5.0",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "471e17dc0d68233db84db11be82c9f62f4661214"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-70460.json"