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Low · 3.4 CVE-2026-93987 EUVD-2026-83592GHSA-jg5v-4p8w-hwm3

rclone serve docker Path Traversal via Volume Name

Published Sep 19, 2026 · Updated Sep 21, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

rclone versions 1.56.0 through 1.75.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the `rclone serve docker` volume plugin. newVolume() in cmd/serve/docker/volume.go computes a volume's mountpoint as filepath.Join(drv.root, name) from the attacker-supplied `name` field of a Docker VolumeDriver.Create request without verifying that the result stays within drv.root (default /var/lib/docker-volumes/rclone), and checkMountpoint() then creates that directory with file.MkdirAll before mounting. A volume name containing enough `..` components (e.g. "../../../../../../etc") therefore resolves outside the base directory, allowing anyone able to submit a VolumeDriver.Create request to the plugin socket — normally the Docker daemon, or a workload that can request named volumes in a multi-tenant orchestration setup — to make the privileged rclone plugin process create a directory and mount a remote filesystem specified in the same request at an arbitrary host path, shadowing or disrupting system directories. The advisory notes Volume.restoreState() had the same missing validation when reloading persisted volume state. Fixed in 1.75.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rclone rclone 1.56.0 – < 1.75.1 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 —

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