TI-2026-49971 Aliases CVE-2026-71313 GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567

rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal

MEDIUM 64CWE-22Published 2026-08-05 · Updated 2026-08-06

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: High
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · Low
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00298 22nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial rclone (rclone): 1.75.0github.com/rclone/rclone (Go): 1.75.0Red Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
rclone	rclone	1.51.0 to before 1.75.0	1.75.0	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/rclone/rclone (Go)	1.51.0 to before 1.75.0	1.75.0	Patch available	GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567

rclone Vendorrclone Affected 1.51.0 to before 1.75.0 Fixed in 1.75.0 Patch available CNA
github.com/rclone/rclone (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.51.0 to before 1.75.0 Fixed in 1.75.0 Patch available GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone::::::::	—	—	rclone

cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·rclone

Remediation

Fix · CNA rclone (rclone) Fixed in 1.75.0
Fix · GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567 github.com/rclone/rclone (Go) Fixed in 1.75.0 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-71313
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567

References

Other 4

TI-2026-60044 rclone serve s3: --auth-proxy without --auth-key authenticates nobody - full SigV4 signature bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2026-29802 RClone: Unauthenticated operations/fsinfo allows attacker-controlled backend instantiation and local command execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
TI-2026-29799 Rclone: Unauthenticated options/set allows runtime auth bypass, leading to sensitive operations and command execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
TI-2026-60064 rclone: RC per-server auth-proxy bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2026-42602 Path traversal in rclone CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2026-60065 rclone: S3 multipart declared-length memory exhaustion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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