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Important: rclone security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Sep 28, 2026 · Updated Sep 28, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-88046: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, rclone core does not reject parent-directory segments in source Object.Remote() values before fs/list, fs/walk, fs/sync, and fs/operations pass those values to destination backends. A flat-keyspace source object store populated with native non-rclone tooling can contain a raw .. key segment, and affected b2, swift, qingstor, oracleobjectstorage, internetarchive, smb, storj, sftp, webdav, ftp, filelu, shade, and sia destinations use path.Join(root, remote) before EncodeDot can neutralize the segment. A copy or upload can therefore escape the configured root into another bucket, share, or path reachable by the victim credential, with sftp and smb potentially reaching other filesystem or share locations under the same login authority. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88044: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.70.0 until 1.75.1, the serve/start RC interface accepts per-server proxyOpt.AuthProxy settings, and the FTP and S3 constructors in cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go and cmd/serve/s3/server.go incorrectly check the process-global proxy.Opt.AuthProxy value instead. When the global value is empty, the request-local authentication proxy is ignored: FTP falls back to the fixed filesystem with username anonymous and any password, while S3 with AuthKey serves the fixed RC fs rather than the backend selected by the proxy. The dedicated command-line servers that configure the global option are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88018: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, rclone serve s3 configured with --auth-proxy but without --auth-key allows authPairMiddleware to register any client-chosen accessKeyID with an empty ws.s3Secret. gofakes3 then verifies the request's SigV4 signature against that same empty secret, while Server.auth passes the access key identifier as both the user and authentication value to the proxy without an independent per-identity secret. An unauthenticated network attacker can therefore choose an arbitrary access key, sign with an empty secret, and reach whatever backend the auth-proxy script resolves for that identity. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88017: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.64.0 until 1.75.1, the FTP auth-proxy driver in cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go stores one obscured password per username in the server-wide userPass map[string]string instead of binding the credential or VFS to the authenticated session. If two accepted credentials use the same username but resolve to different proxy backends, a later CheckPasswd login overwrites userPass[user], and subsequent getVFS operations on the first session are reauthorized with the later password. The first session can then read, create, overwrite, rename, or delete objects using the second credential's backend authority. Exploitation requires the later same-username login to occur while the first session remains open. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88016: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, when backend/local runs with --links, a source .rclonelink object can plant a symlink in the destination and later directory metadata is applied through that path. MkdirMetadata, writeMetadataToFile, and setTimes operate when Directory.translatedLink=false, so os.Chown, os.Chmod, os.Chtimes, and birth-time handling can bypass os.Root confinement and follow the symlink. An attacker controlling source contents can therefore apply selected ownership, permissions, modification times, or birth times to a file or directory outside the destination, with --metadata required for chmod and chown while modification time is applied by the normal directory workflow. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88015: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, backend/local with --links or links=true exposes symlink targets as .rclonelink objects, and fs.RangeOption.Decode can pass an unchecked positive Range start through Object.Open and openTranslatedLink. The function slices the target string as linkdst[offset:], so a Range start larger than the target length causes a deterministic slice-bounds panic when lib/http/serve exposes the object through HTTP or WebDAV. Go net/http normally recovers the panic per connection, causing request-level denial of service rather than terminating the entire process. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88014: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.72.0 until 1.75.1, the archive ZIP backend method (*Fs).readZip in backend/archive/zip/zip.go accepts archive/zip.File.Name values from an untrusted central directory and exposes cleaned entry names without ensuring that they remain inside the archive namespace. Entries such as ../../etc/cron.d/evil can survive path.Clean and become Object.Remote() values that fs/sync and fs/operations use as destination-relative paths, allowing rclone copy or sync to write outside the selected destination on backends that do not independently confine the path. The non-empty root check also used strings.HasPrefix without a path boundary, so root foo could incorrectly include sibling foobar entries. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1. CVE-2026-88013: rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.49.0 until 1

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 rclone 0:1.75.1-1.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 rclone-debuginfo 0:1.75.1-1.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 rclone-debugsource 0:1.75.1-1.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 25

  • Critical 9.8

    rclone serve s3: --auth-proxy without --auth-key authenticates nobody - full SigV4 signature bypass

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, rclone serve s3 configured with --auth-proxy but without --auth-key allows authPairMiddleware to register any client-chosen accessKe…

  • Critical 9.1

    rclone: RC per-server auth-proxy bypass

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.70.0 until 1.75.1, the serve/start RC interface accepts per-server proxyOpt.AuthProxy settings, and the FTP and S3 constructors in cmd/serve/f…

  • High 7.8

    Root escape via symlink plus trailing slash in os

    On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a path is a symbolic link and the path ends in /. For example, 'root.Open("symlink/")' will open "symlink" even whe…

  • High 7.5

    Excessive memory allocation during VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image

    VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image/vp8l can allocate an excessive amount of memory when processing a crafted VP8L image containing many unused Huffman tree groups. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.

  • High 7.5

    Source-address critical option not enforced for non-public-key auth callbacks in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

    The source-address critical option in the Permissions returned by an authentication callback was only enforced for the PublicKeyCallback and VerifiedPublicKeyCallback paths, extending the fix for CVE-2026-46595. Permissions returned by the PasswordCallback, K…

  • High 7.5

    Prevent DoS on deadlocked established channel in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

    Previously, after a channel has been established, a malicious peer could send crafted messages that would deadlock the entire connection. Now, we handle all RFC 4254 channel messages; global requests are handled explicitly. Then, treat all other messages as a…

  • High 7.5

    Prevent DoS on deadlocked undecided channel in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

    Previously, a channel registered in the mux's chanList is not usable until it is established. A malicious peer was able flood the channel's incomingRequests, deadlocking the entire connection. Now, we add an atomic established state, set when a channel become…

  • High 7.3

    rclone: FTP cross-session auth-proxy backend confusion

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.64.0 until 1.75.1, the FTP auth-proxy driver in cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go stores one obscured password per username in the server-wide userPass map…

  • High 7.1

    rclone: Directory metadata (chmod/chown/chtimes) applied through a planted symlink in rclone local --links escapes the destination

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, when backend/local runs with --links, a source .rclonelink object can plant a symlink in the destination and later directory metadat…

  • Medium 6.9

    rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal

    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 f…

  • Medium 6.5

    rclone Archive Backend SquashFS Parser Denial of Service

    rclone versions >= v1.72.0 and <= v1.74.4 (fixed in v1.75.0) contain multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the archive backend's SquashFS parser, which relies on the github.com/diskfs/go-diskfs dependency. The parser fails to validate attacker-control…

  • Medium 6.5

    rclone serve s3 Path Traversal via dot-dot object keys

    rclone serve s3 before 1.74.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to read and overwrite root-level files by using dot-dot segments in S3 object keys. Attackers can send requests with object keys like ../root-secret.txt to escape the …

  • Medium 6.3

    rclone archive/zip: Zip Slip via unsanitized zip entry names lets a malicious archive escape its own namespace

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.72.0 until 1.75.1, the archive ZIP backend method (*Fs).readZip in backend/archive/zip/zip.go accepts archive/zip.File.Name values from an unt…

  • Medium 5.3

    Invoking Encrypted Client Hello privacy leak in crypto/tls

    Handshakes which used Encrypted Client Hello could be de-anonymized by a passive network observer due to a disclosure of pre-shared key identities in the unencrypted client hello.

  • Medium 5.3

    rclone before 1.75.0 Authentication Bypass via pprof

    rclone before 1.75.0 mounts the pprof debug handler as its own router route, bypassing the fail-closed authentication rule in the main handler. Attackers can access the /debug/pprof/cmdline endpoint unauthenticated to retrieve the full process argv including …

  • Medium 5.3

    rclone before v1.75.0 Denial of Service via TUS nil-response panic

    rclone before v1.75.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the WebDAV TUS creation handler that dereferences a nil response before checking for transport errors. A malicious or compromised configured endpoint can reset connections during TUS uploads …

  • Medium 5.3

    rclone before v1.75.0 WebDAV Credential Exposure via HTTPS-to-HTTP Redirect

    rclone versions before v1.75.0 fail to reject transport downgrades in redirect handling, allowing Basic authorization and Cookie headers to be replayed over plaintext HTTP after same-host HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects. An on-path attacker observing the plaintext ho…

  • Medium 5.3

    rclone before v1.75.0 Credential Exposure via S3 Redirect

    rclone before v1.75.0 fails to sanitize IBM IAM bearer tokens and SSE-C encryption keys during S3 redirect callbacks, allowing credentials to be preserved across scheme or host changes. Attackers observing network traffic from a trusted endpoint can capture r…

  • Medium 5.3

    rclone local: crafted Range request against a translated symlink panics (DoS)

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, backend/local with --links or links=true exposes symlink targets as .rclonelink objects, and fs.RangeOption.Decode can pass an unche…

  • Medium 5.3

    rclone: source object names can escape the configured root on upload

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, rclone core does not reject parent-directory segments in source Object.Remote() values before fs/list, fs/walk, fs/sync, and fs/oper…

  • Medium 5.0

    rclone archive extract allows S3 destination prefix escape via crafted archive paths

    Rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.74.4, rclone archive extract can write extracted files outside the user-selected destination prefix when extracting a crafted archive cont…

  • Low 3.7

    rclone: http backend forwards custom/auth headers to a different host on redirect

    rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.49.0 until 1.75.1, the HTTP backend attaches headers configured through --http-headers or headers= to requests in backend/http/http.go, while …

  • Low 3.6

    rclone before 1.74.4 Privilege Escalation via setuid Metadata

    rclone before 1.74.4 fails to mask special permission bits when applying source-supplied mode metadata in the local backend, allowing attackers to set setuid/setgid bits on attacker-controlled files. When copying with metadata preservation from an untrusted r…

  • Low 3.1

    rclone before 1.74.4 Security Token Disclosure via HTTPS to HTTP Redirect

    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.

  • Low 2.7

    rclone before v1.75.0 Information Disclosure via RC API

    rclone before v1.75.0 includes full Go stack traces in RC API error responses when panics occur. Attackers can trigger panics to leak internal file paths, module versions, goroutine states, and memory addresses.

References

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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-39822.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-42505.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-46603.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-56854.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-56855.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-59732.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-71313.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-78662.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79775.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79776.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79777.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79778.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79779.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79780.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79781.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79782.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-79783.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88013.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88014.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88015.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88016.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88017.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88018.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88044.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-88046.html