{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.21",
        "name": "rsync",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/rsync?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.4.2"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.0-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.22",
        "name": "rsync",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/rsync?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.4.2"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.0-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.23",
        "name": "rsync",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/rsync?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.4.2"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.0-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.24",
        "name": "rsync",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/rsync?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.4.2"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.0-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "ALPINE-CVE-2026-70455",
  "modified": "2026-09-01T23:17:57.654188141Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T15:19:59.197Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-70455"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-70455"
  ]
}