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High · 8.0 CVE-2026-71312 BIT-rclone-2026-71312EUVD-2026-53619GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2GO-2026-6182

rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShell hash commands in backend/sftp/sftp.go, and quoteOrEscapeShellPath escapes only ASCII apostrophe even though PowerShell treats U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, and U+201B as single-quote delimiters, allowing an attacker-controlled filename to terminate the intended path literal and append PowerShell statements that execute as the victim SSH account when server-side hashing is invoked. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rclone rclone < 1.75.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 rclone No fix yet —
Debian 12 rclone No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling telegraf-1.38 1.38.4-r19 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rclone/rclone < 1.75.0 1.75.0 GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2

Advisories 3

References