CVE-2026-71313

rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Aug 5, 2026
Updated
Aug 6, 2026
Reserved
Aug 5, 2026

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Description

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From v1.51.0 until v1.75.0, the local backend in backend/local/local.go relies on the configurable filename encoder to prevent remote filename data from becoming operating-system path syntax, so a local destination using Slash, None, Raw, or on Windows an encoding that preserves backslash can decode a standard-encoded fullwidth dot-dot component or native backslash form into an actual parent-directory component before filepath.Join resolves it outside the configured local root, allowing an attacker-controlled source object to create or overwrite files outside the selected destination directory as the rclone process. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rclonerclone
  • >= 1.51.0, < 1.75.0Affected

References

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