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CVE-2025-10158 (GCVE-0-2025-10158)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-18 14:24
Modified
2025-11-19 16:48
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array 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.
References
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