CVE-2026-119741: samba rsync

CVSS 8.7 (high) · published 2026-11-03

rsync before 3.5.2 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.

Affected products (NVD): samba rsync

Weakness: CWE-407

Source: NVD CVE-2026-119741

References

• 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://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/tag/v3.5.2
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-through-3.5.1-denial-of-service-via-hash-search-checksum-collisions

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