CVE-2026-71312
HIGHrclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
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https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2
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https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a57641b63a580aa26c026903a84e2e88
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https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0
Scores
CVSS v3
8.0
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
19.6%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-78
Status
published
Products (2)
rclone/rclone
0 - 1.75.0Go
rclone/rclone
< 1.75.0
Published
Aug 05, 2026
Tracked Since
Aug 06, 2026