CVE-2026-71312
Published:August 05, 2026
Updated:August 31, 2026
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShell hash commands in backend/sftp/sftp.go, and quoteOrEscapeShellPath escapes only ASCII apostrophe even though PowerShell treats U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, and U+201B as single-quote delimiters, allowing an attacker-controlled filename to terminate the intended path literal and append PowerShell statements that execute as the victim SSH account when server-side hashing is invoked. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/rclone/rclone.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.90 <v1.75.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.75.0github.com/rclone/rclone (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v0.0.0-20140703205654-48d259da68d4 <v1.75.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.75.0github.com/rclone/rclone (GO):
Affected version(s) >=a97261c54f17aab6c0847d7ef7d6747797f29c94 <v1.75.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.75.0Related Resources (6)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
EPSS
Base Score:
0.28