CVE-2014-2855

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The check_secret function in authenticate.c in rsync 3.1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a user name which does not exist in the secrets file.

Affected products

RsyncProject rsync: through 3.1.0; 2.6.9, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4 (+35)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0065.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131910.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57948
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:131
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2171-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1307230
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10551
https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0dedfbce2c1b851684ba658861fe9d620636c56a
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0065.html

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