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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-88046 BIT-rclone-2026-88046EUVD-2026-75589GHSA-38xv-hf3p-h7mqGO-2026-6457

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

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 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 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.

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 —
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 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 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-38xv-hf3p-h7mq

Advisories 4

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