Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting rsync package, versions [3.0.0,3.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RSYNC-19427373
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-70459  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rsync to version 3.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource in the daemon process. An attacker can cause the service to crash by sending a specially crafted file list where the first entry is a dot entry not typed as a directory, leading to a null pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1