CVE-2026-93987 PUBLISHED

rclone serve docker Path Traversal via Volume Name

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 19.09.2026 Published: 19.09.2026 Updated: 19.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 4.6

Product Status

Vendor rclone
Product rclone
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.56.0 to 1.75.1 (excl.)
  • Version 1.75.1 is unaffected

Credits

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References

Problem Types

  • External Control of File Name or Path CWE