Published Aug 13, 2026Sources checked Oct 28, 2026
8.2HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-70456 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.2. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Aug 23, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
3.5.0-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.4%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-70456?
rsync 3.0.1 before 3.5.0 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the read_args() function that allows a malicious sender to corrupt adjacent heap memory by sending a crafted argument list. When the argument count causes the argv allocation to be exactly full, the trailing NULL terminator is written one slot beyond the allocation boundary, corrupting adjacent heap memory.