Rsyslog vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Rsyslog has 19 published vulnerabilities across 4 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Rsyslog, with 17. If you run Rsyslog software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Rsyslog products have the most vulnerabilities?

Rsyslog leads with 17 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Rsyslog17
  2. Librelp1
  3. Rsyslogd1
  4. Libfastjson0
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Rsyslog vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Rsyslog's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Rsyslog flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 21%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the parseLegacySyslogMsg function in tools/syslogd.c in rsyslogd in rsyslog 4.6.x before 4.6.8 and 5.2.0 through 5.8.4 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

    CVSS5.0Published6 Sep 2011
  2. 9.3%

    rsyslog librelp version 1.2.14 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the checking of x509 certificates from a peer that can result in Remote code execution.

    CVSS9.8Published23 Mar 2018
  3. 7.5%

    rsyslog before 7.6.6 and 8.x before 8.4.1 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly execute arbitrary code, or have other unspecified impact via a crafted...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Nov 2014
  4. 4.6%

    Integer overflow in rsyslog before 7.6.7 and 8.x before 8.4.2 and sysklogd 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large priority (PRI) value.

    CVSS5.0Published2 Nov 2014
  5. 4.4%

    An issue was discovered in Rsyslog v8.1908.0.

    CVSS9.8Published7 Oct 2019
  6. 3.9%

    Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing.

    CVSS8.1Published6 May 2022
  7. 3.0%

    An issue was discovered in Rsyslog v8.1908.0.

    CVSS9.8Published7 Oct 2019
  8. 2.8%

    The zmq3 input and output modules in rsyslog before 8.28.0 interpreted description fields as format strings, possibly allowing a format string attack with unspecified impact.

    CVSS9.8Published6 Aug 2017
  9. 2.4%

    contrib/pmdb2diag/pmdb2diag.c in Rsyslog v8.1908.0 allows out-of-bounds access because the level length is mishandled.

    CVSS9.8Published30 Sep 2019
  10. 2.3%

    Double free vulnerability in the writeDataError function in the ElasticSearch plugin (omelasticsearch) in rsyslog before 7.4.2 and before 7.5.2 devel, when errorfile is set to local logging, allows remote attackers...

    CVSS6.8Published4 Oct 2013
Every product

All Rsyslog products we track.

4 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 19 published vulnerabilities across 4 products and 515 versions from Rsyslog.

None of Rsyslog's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Rsyslog, with 17 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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