CVE-2014-2855
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 4.2%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-2879)
- Published
- April 23, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-2879 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- samba / rsync
- samba / rsync
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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(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Vendor Advisory)
- https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0dedfbce2c1b851684ba658861fe9d620636c56a
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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