PT-2026-71655 · Rsync · Rsync

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CVE-2026-70455

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Published

2026-08-13

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Updated

2026-09-02

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rsync versions 3.4.2 through 3.4.x
Description A denial of service issue exists where a remote sender can exhaust system resources on the receiver. This occurs because the short alias --zt for the --compress-threads option bypasses the string matching of the refuse options directive, which only checks long option names. An attacker can provide a large value for the --zt variable to spawn an unbounded number of Zstandard worker threads, leading to the exhaustion of available memory and thread resources.
Recommendations Update rsync to version 3.5.0.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

AZL-95807
CVE-2026-70455
ECHO-984F-9A90-EBE1
GHSA-RJVJ-QGQG-CVX9
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21650-1
SUSE-SU-2026:23253-1
SUSE-SU-2026:23254-1
SUSE-SU-2026:23289-1
SUSE-SU-2026:23323-1
SUSE-SU-2026:3634-1
SUSE-SU-2026:3657-1

Affected Products

Rsync