Vulnerability in rclone

[ Description ]Official description

Rclone before 1.75.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the local backend's translateLink function, which trims the .rclonelink suffix from a path after the containment check, so a name can resolve outside the destination root. Attackers can plant a directory named ...rclonelink in a source tree synced with --links and --metadata to change ownership, timestamps, and xattrs of the destination's parent directory.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund25 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4156

  rclone: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-116187CVE-2026-116191CVE-2026-116193+7 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-55qp-jrwr-x827Vendor Advisory
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rclone-before-1.75.2-path-traversal-via-translatelink-rclo…Third Party Advisory