CVE-2026-70455

Name
CVE-2026-70455
Description
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
disclosure@vulncheck.com https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/tag/v3.5.0
disclosure@vulncheck.com https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/security/advisories/GHSA-rjvj-qgqg-cvx9
disclosure@vulncheck.com https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-dos-via-zt-zstandard-compression-thread-exhaustion

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* rsync >= 3.4.2 < 3.5.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
rsync edge-main 3.5.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
rsync edge-main 3.4.4-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync edge-main 3.4.3-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync edge-main 3.4.3-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync edge-main 3.4.2-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.24-main 3.5.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
rsync 3.24-main 3.4.3-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.23-main 3.5.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
rsync 3.23-main 3.4.3-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.23-main 3.4.2-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.22-main 3.5.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
rsync 3.22-main 3.4.3-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.22-main 3.4.2-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.21-main 3.5.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
rsync 3.21-main 3.4.3-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.21-main 3.4.2-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.20-main 3.4.3-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
rsync 3.20-main 3.4.2-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable