CVE-2026-71312

HIGH

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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