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CVE-2026-88014

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3 EPSS 0.14% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-09-10 · Last synced 2026-09-14

CyberRota Analysis

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The vulnerability affects rclone versions 1.72.0 to 1.75.1, specifically the archive ZIP backend method, which improperly handles untrusted file names, allowing potential path traversal attacks. This could enable an attacker to write files outside the intended destination, posing a risk to systems using backends that do not enforce strict path confinement. Organizations utilizing rclone for file synchronization should prioritize updating to version 1.75.1 to mitigate this risk.

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CVE
CVE-2026-88014
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.3
EPSS
0.14%

Original NVD Description

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.