rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.40.0 until 1.75.0, rclone serve restic does not correctly reject URL paths beginni
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.40.0 until 1.75.0, rclone serve restic does not correctly reject URL paths beginning with ../ in cmd/serve/restic/restic.go WithRemote, which accepts a leading parent path and passes it to GET, HEAD, POST, and DELETE handlers for configured backends including WebDAV, FTP, HTTP, Memory, and SFTP. An attacker who can access the REST endpoint may read, create, overwrite, or delete o
Affected packages
- rclone
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- —
- EPSS percentile
- —
EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71309
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-45pq-889g-fcgh
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/cc5a189f00efe68ed0ddb32d3237b42549a9f264
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-71309
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