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CVE-2004-0426

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0426 describes a path sanitization vulnerability in rsync versions prior to 2.6.1. When operating a read/write daemon without chroot, remote attackers could exploit this flaw to write files outside of the intended module path. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:andrew_tridgell:rsync:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0340 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: rsync-0:2.5.7-4.3E
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0426Important

security flaw

Apr 26, 2004

References

marc.info
rsync.samba.org
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/11514
secunia.com / advisories/11515
secunia.com / advisories/11523
secunia.com / advisories/11537
secunia.com / advisories/11583
secunia.com / advisories/11669
secunia.com / advisories/11688
secunia.com / advisories/11993
secunia.com / advisories/12054
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16014
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9495
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A967
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/o-134.shtml
ciac.org / ciac/bulletins/o-212.shtml
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-499
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-10.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2004-192.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/10247
slackware.org / security/viewer.php
trustix.net / errata/misc/2004/TSL-2004-0024-rsync.asc.txt