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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-71313 BIT-rclone-2026-71313EUVD-2026-53643GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567GO-2026-6186

rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rclone rclone >= 1.51.0, < 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

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 rclone 1.75.1-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3129

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling telegraf-1.38 1.38.4-r19 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rclone/rclone >= 1.51.0, < 1.75.0 1.75.0 GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567

Advisories 4

References