CVE-2026-71313 PUBLISHED

rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.08.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 06.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor rclone
Product rclone
Versions
  • Version >= 1.51.0, < 1.75.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE