# CVE-2026-71313: rclone: Local Encoding Path Traversal

- Also known as: GO-2026-6186, BIT-RCLONE-2026-71313, GHSA-7P4M-QXVV-G567
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.75.0
- Published: 2026-08-05 · Updated: 2026-08-06

## Affected

- rclone: from 1.51.0, fixed in 1.75.0
- github.com/rclone/rclone (Go): from 1.51.0, fixed in 1.75.0

## Description

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From v1.51.0 until v1.75.0, the local backend in backend/local/local.go relies on the configurable filename encoder to prevent remote filename data from becoming operating-system path syntax, so a local destination using Slash, None, Raw, or on Windows an encoding that preserves backslash can decode a standard-encoded fullwidth dot-dot component or native backslash form into an actual parent-directory component before filepath.Join resolves it outside the configured local root, allowing an attacker-controlled source object to create or overwrite files outside the selected destination directory as the rclone process. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rclone, github.com/rclone/rclone, upgrade to a fixed version (1.75.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-7p4m-qxvv-g567
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/6a69713864b1d8f6edbc03d8af735f9624576d6e
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0

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