Medium severity · published Aug 5, 2026
CVE-2026-71310
rclone: Unbounded HTTP CONNECT Response Headers Can Exhaust rclone Memory
5.9
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.0, the shared HTTP CONNECT helper in lib/proxy/http.go parses proxy CONNECT responses with http.ReadResponse over an unrestricted buffered reader, allowing a malicious or compromised configured proxy, or an active on-path actor controlling a plaintext HTTP proxy hop, to send oversized headers that grow memory until the rclone process fails. The affected helper is used by FTP and SFTP proxy connections, and SFTP reaches the parser before SSH server authentication, so target host key validation does not constrain a malicious proxy. This issue is fixed in 1.75.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RC
rclone · rclone
< 1.75.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71310
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71310
github.com
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/21d8cd3b92cd81d987f485051d454ea675d91a2b
github.com
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0
github.com
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-xhf4-832v-7xcr
pkg.go.dev
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6199
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