CVE-2026-70455
highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.006 · 47 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
rsync 3.4.2 before 3.5.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows a remote sender to exhaust system resources by specifying the --zt short alias for --compress-threads, which bypasses the refuse options directive's string matching on long option names. Attackers can specify --zt=N with a large value to spawn an unbounded number of Zstandard worker threads on the receiver, exhausting available thread and memory resources.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.6–8.7
ssvc
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weaknesses
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affected products (22)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platformall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift:container_platform
advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2026-2817Rsync: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-08-12csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Rsync ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen, beliebigen Code auszuführen, Daten offenzulegen oder zu manipulieren, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen oder Denial-of-Service-Zustände herbeizuführen.
also known as (3)
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sources
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references (10)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/tag/v3.5.0cnnvd
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/security/advisories/GHSA-rjvj-qgqg-cvx9cnnvd
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-dos-via-zt-zstandard-compression-thread-exhaustioncnnvd
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/tag/v3.5.0enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/security/advisories/GHSA-rjvj-qgqg-cvx9enisa_euvd
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-dos-via-zt-zstandard-compression-thread-exhaustionenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/tag/v3.5.0ProductRelease Notesnvd
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