rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.0, a valid but nondefault FTP filename encoding in backend/ftp/ftp.go can r
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.0, a valid but nondefault FTP filename encoding in backend/ftp/ftp.go can restore raw CR/LF immediately before an attacker-controlled path is interpolated into the line-oriented FTP control channel, and github.com/jlaffaye/ftp formats the argument through textproto.Conn.Cmd without rejecting CR or LF, allowing a filename such as victim CRLF DELE other-secret CRLF NOOP to i
Affected packages
- rclone
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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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-2026-71311
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-8c48-q9wj-3w37
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/1df2b70753286c1dfe8366078cbedfdf7f96472c
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-71311
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