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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-08-17 05:53

Modified

2026-08-17 06:10

Summary

rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution

Details

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.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "rclone",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/rclone"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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              "fixed": "1.75.0"
            }
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        }
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        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-71312"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-rclone-2026-71312",
  "modified": "2026-08-17T06:10:32.268Z",
  "published": "2026-08-17T05:53:33.868Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a57641b63a580aa26c026903a84e2e88"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71312"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution"
}

CVE-2026-71312 (GCVE-0-2026-71312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 20:37 – Updated: 2026-08-07 03:55

Title

rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution

Summary

Severity

8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-06 00:00 UTC

CWE

CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisor…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
rclone	rclone	Affected: < 1.75.0

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