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CVE-2026-88018GHSA-XWWR-4H3P-R22CBIT-RCLONE-2026-88018GO-2026-6462

rclone serve s3: --auth-proxy without --auth-key authenticates nobody - full SigV4 signature bypass

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.75.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, rclone serve s3 configured with --auth-proxy but without --auth-key allows authPairMiddleware to register any client-chosen accessKeyID with an empty ws.s3Secret. gofakes3 then verifies the request’s SigV4 signature against that same empty secret, while Server.auth passes the access key identifier as both the user and authentication value to the proxy without an independent per-identity secret. An unauthenticated network attacker can therefore choose an arbitrary access key, sign with an empty secret, and reach whatever backend the auth-proxy script resolves for that identity. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • rclone rclone

    fixed in 1.75.1

  • github.com/rclone/rcloneGo

    fixed in 1.75.1

References 3

GitHub · rclone/rclone