Rsync: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Manipulation von Dateien
WID-SEC-2022-0891 · first 03.08.2022 · updated 26.05.2026 · CVSS 9,3
What it is about
Rsync ist ein Tool, um Dateien und Verzeichnisse zu synchronisieren. Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Rsync ausnutzen, um Dateien zu manipulieren.
Under what conditions?
Over the network and without logging in. This is the most dangerous combination: attackers can scan reachable devices automatically.
What can happen in the worst case
An attacker could use the vulnerability to
- Dateien zu manipulieren
Am I affected?
Affected according to the BSI:
- IBM Security Guardium 11.4
- Open Source CentOS
- Amazon Linux 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu Linux
- SUSE Linux
- Juniper Junos Space
- Oracle Linux
- HPE Switch
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Gentoo Linux
- Broadcom Brocade Switch
and 4 more
The installed version is usually shown under “Help → About” or in the device’s admin interface.
What helps?
Update to at least:
- Open Source Rsync 3.2.5
Is the vulnerability already being exploited?
None of the CVEs is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities. That does not mean there are no attacks, only that none are documented.
Information and sources
- Original BSI advisory (WID)
- National Vulnerability Database - CVE-2022-29154 Detail vom 2022-08-02 seclists.org
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2022:2825-1 vom 2022-08-16 lists.suse.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2022:2858-1 vom 2022-08-19 lists.suse.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2022:2859-1 vom 2022-08-19 lists.suse.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6170 vom 2022-08-25 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6171 vom 2022-08-25 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6172 vom 2022-08-25 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6180 vom 2022-08-25 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6181 vom 2022-08-25 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6173 vom 2022-08-25 access.redhat.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-6170 vom 2022-08-25 linux.oracle.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-6181 vom 2022-08-25 linux.oracle.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-6180 vom 2022-08-25 linux.oracle.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2022:2959-1 vom 2022-08-31 lists.suse.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2022:2959-2 vom 2022-09-01 lists.suse.com
- CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2022:6170 vom 2022-09-02 lists.centos.org
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6344 vom 2022-09-07 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6182 vom 2022-09-06 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6183 vom 2022-09-06 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:6551 vom 2022-09-19 access.redhat.com
- Amazon Linux Security Advisory ALAS-2022-148 vom 2022-10-14 alas.aws.amazon.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2022:7058 vom 2022-10-20 access.redhat.com
- Amazon Linux Security Advisory ALAS-2022-158 vom 2022-11-04 alas.aws.amazon.com
- Amazon Linux Security Advisory ALAS-2022-1873 vom 2022-11-09 alas.aws.amazon.com
- Juniper Security Advisory JSA70185 vom 2023-01-12 supportportal.juniper.net
and 6 more sources in the original advisory
CVE: CVE-2022-29154
Source: BSI warning and information service (CERT-Bund); CISA. The assessment of the conditions is my reading of the BSI text; the external pages are in their original language.