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CVE-2026-53794

6.9 medium SSVC exploitation: none Awaiting Analysis

rsync before 3.5.0 contains a logic error in --max-alloc handling that allows a sender or configuration setting --max-alloc=0 to disable allocation sanity checks entirely rather than enforcing a zero-byte cap. Attackers can exploit this flaw to cause the receiver to attempt unbounded memory allocations for file list and data structures, potentially exhausting available memory and causing a denial of service.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.9NVD modified 2026-10-23 18:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 3