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Rsync Daemon Banner Exposed

rsync-banner-exposed is a medium severity check in the network category, written in yaml. Its source is templates/network/rsync/rsync-banner-exposed.yaml in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects rsync daemon banner exposure on TCP/873. The rsync banner reveals service presence and version and often precedes unauthenticated module enumeration.

Field Value
Id rsync-banner-exposed
Severity medium
Language yaml
Category network
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version 1.0.0
Confidence 80
CVSS 5.3
Weakness CWE-200
Tags rsync, information-disclosure, network, exposure
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

The file declares network, remediation as well. Those are not tabled above; read the source for what they carry.

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info rsync-banner-exposed

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.