CVE-2026-88014CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-88014

Medium · published September 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.72.0 until 1.75.1, the archive ZIP backend method (*Fs).readZip in backend/archive/zip/zip.go accepts archive/zip.File.Name values from an untrusted central directory and exposes cleaned entry names without ensuring that they remain inside the archive namespace. Entries such as ../../etc/cron.d/evil can survive path.Clean and become Object.Remote() values that fs/sync and fs/operations use as destination-relative paths, allowing rclone copy or sync to write outside the selected destination on backends that do not independently confine the path. The non-empty root check also used strings.HasPrefix without a path boundary, so root foo could incorrectly include sibling foobar entries. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00151 · 3.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-09-10T20:18Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
rclone/rclone≥ 1.72.0, < 1.75.11.75.1
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 03:22Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 10 SEP 15:48Z
    rclone archive/zip: Zip Slip via unsanitized zip entry names lets a malicious archive escape its own namespace
    cvelistv5