CVE-2026-70455

rsync 3.4.2 < 3.5.0 DoS via --zt Zstandard Compression Thread Exhaustion

CVE-2026-70455 is fixed in 3 products on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2026:67463, released August 13, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
8.2
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0057
47th percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
rsync · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 3.5.0+ds1-0+deb13u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-70455 Aug 27, 2026
rsync · Debian 14 3.5.0+ds1-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-70455 Aug 27, 2026
rsync · RHEL 10 3.5.0-3.el10_2 RHSA-2026:67463 Aug 13, 2026
rsync · almalinux 10 3.5.0-3.el10_2 ALSA-2026:67463 Sep 14, 2026
rsync · ol 10 0:3.5.0-3.el10_2 ELSA-2026-67463-0 Sep 16, 2026
rsync · opensuse-leap 16.0 3.4.1-160000.6.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21650-1 Aug 26, 2026
rsync · rocky 10 0:3.5.0-3.el10_2 RLSA-2026:67463 Sep 15, 2026
rsync · sles 15.6 3.2.7-150600.3.24.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3657-1 Aug 20, 2026
rsync · sles 15.7 3.2.7-150600.3.24.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3657-1 Aug 20, 2026
rsync · sles 16.0 3.4.1-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23323-1 Aug 26, 2026
rsync-daemon · almalinux 10 3.5.0-3.el10_2 ALSA-2026:67463 Sep 14, 2026
rsync-daemon · ol 10 0:3.5.0-3.el10_2 ELSA-2026-67463-0 Sep 16, 2026
rsync-rrsync · almalinux 10 3.5.0-3.el10_2 ALSA-2026:67463 Sep 14, 2026
rsync-rrsync · ol 10 0:3.5.0-3.el10_2 ELSA-2026-67463-0 Sep 16, 2026

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