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Ubuntu: USN-3946-1 (CVE-2019-3464): rssh vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 2, 2019
Added
Apr 24, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Insufficient sanitization of environment variables passed to rsync can bypass the restrictions imposed by rssh, a restricted shell that should restrict users to perform only rsync operations, resulting in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-rssh
Title
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