CVE-2026-71312

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.0
Exploit probability—
ProductGithub.com/rclone/rclone
PublishedAug 5, 2026
First seenAug 5, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • github.com/rclone/rclone1.75.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
github.com/rclone/rcloneGov < 1.75.01.75.0

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