CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0473

Published: Apr 07, 1999 | Modified: Apr 16, 2026

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0473
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

The rsync command before rsync 2.3.1 may inadvertently change the permissions of the clients working directory to the permissions of the directory being transferred.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Rsync	Andrew_tridgell	*	2.3.1 (including)

References

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