CVE-2025-10158 (GCVE-0-2025-10158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-18 14:24 – Updated: 2025-11-19 16:48
VLAI
Title
Rsync: Out of bounds array access via negative index
Summary
A malicious client acting as the receiver of an rsync file transfer can trigger an out of bounds read of a heap based buffer, via a negative array index. The malicious rsync client requires at least read access to the remote rsync module in order to trigger the issue.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-19 16:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
rsync rsync Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.4.1 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-11-18 14:20
Credits
Calum Hutton
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