Medium severity · published Aug 5, 2026
CVE-2026-71313
rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal
6.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 22% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RC
rclone · rclone
>= 1.51.0, < 1.75.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
RC
rclone
rclone
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