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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.7 · sambaNVD modified 2026-10-23 18:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 3
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/tag/v3.5.0 Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/security/advisories/GHSA-rjvj-qgqg-cvx9 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-dos-via-zt-zstandard-compression-thread-exhaustion Release Notes, Third Party Advisory