rsync through 3.5.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the delta-transfer sender's hashsearch() in match.c that allows malicious…
CVE-2026-119741
rsync through 3.5.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the delta-transfer sender's hashsearch() in match.c that allows malicious receivers to trigger unbounded strong-checksum work at consecutive offsets. Unauthenticated attackers pulling from a public daemon module can supply weak checksums colliding with consecutive rolling windows plus non-matching strong checksums, exhausting sender CPU across concurrent connections.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.7 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 3 November 2026
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
- Affected
- RsyncProject · rsync
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/1132
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/a7404a9a633cff28ee1602f328b9c3fa69cdbd04
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/blob/a7404a9a633cff28ee1602f328b9c3fa69cdbd04/testsuite/hashsearch-collision-skip_test.py
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-through-3.5.1-denial-of-service-via-hash-search-checksum-collisions
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