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As a result, hundreds of thousands of endpoints are at serious risk.
The warning comes from multiple cybersecurity researchers, including those fromGoogleCloud, who recently discovered and reported the flaws.
Two independent groups of researchers have identified a total of 6 vulnerabilities in rsync.
Upstream has prepared patches for these CVEs.
These fixes will be included in rsync 3.4.0 which is to be released shortly.
It was given a severity score of 9.8, and said to affect versions 3.2.7 through < 3.4.0.
BleepingComputeralso ran a quick Shodan scan which came back with 660,000 potentially affected instances.
