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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-88018 BIT-rclone-2026-88018EUVD-2026-75585GHSA-xwwr-4h3p-r22cGO-2026-6462

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

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 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 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rclone rclone < 1.75.1 —

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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

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-r28 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rclone/rclone < 1.75.1 1.75.1 GHSA-xwwr-4h3p-r22c

Advisories 4

References