CVE-2026-119741
rsync through 3.5.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the delta-transfer sender's…
- Risk score
- 50/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Published
- 3 Nov 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- rsync through 3.5.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the delta-transfer sender's hash_search() 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…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/blob/a7404a9a633cff28ee1602f328b9c3fa69cdbd04/testsuite/hashsearch-collision-skip_test.py
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/a7404a9a633cff28ee1602f328b9c3fa69cdbd04
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/1132
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-through-3.5.1-denial-of-service-via-hash-search-checksum-collisions
Original description
rsync through 3.5.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the delta-transfer sender's hash_search() 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.
Last activity 3 Nov 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.