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
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
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-2026-71312
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a57641b63a580aa26c026903a84e2e88
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-71312
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