rclone before 1.74.4 Security Token Disclosure via HTTPS to HTTP Redirect
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-319.
Summary
rclone before 1.74.4 fails to strip the X-Amz-Security-Token header when an S3 redirect changes scheme from HTTPS to HTTP on the same host. Attackers can intercept plaintext HTTP traffic to capture AWS STS session tokens sent in request headers.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
Remediation
- Fix · CNA rclone (rclone) Fixed in 1.74.4
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
rclone 1.74.4
3 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 1 HIGH, 1 MEDIUM, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-55258 rclone serve s3 Path Traversal via dot-dot object keysPriority HIGH 70
- TI-2026-55260 rclone before 1.74.4 Privilege Escalation via setuid MetadataPriority MEDIUM 44
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-79782
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mwgh-564g-j9ww
References
More rclone vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-79782 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-79782 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mwgh-564g-j9ww · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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