Microsoft advisory for CVE-2026-53798 — azl3 rsync 3.4.3-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
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📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- azl3 rsync 3.4.3-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-53798
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
rsync before 3.5.0 contains a privilege confusion vulnerability in the name-converter subprocess uid/gid mapping that allows local attackers to cause transferred files to be owned by root by influencing name-converter responses to return empty values. When the name-converter subprocess returns an empty response for a uid or gid lookup, rsync incorrectly interprets it as a successful resolution to uid/gid 0 (root) rather than a lookup failure, and if the name-converter also signals fake super-user status, rsync proceeds with root ownership assignments for transferred files.
Published by VulnCheck, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-53798, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).