rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShell hash commands in backend/sftp/sftp.go, and quoteOrEscapeShellPath escapes only ASCII apostrophe even though PowerShell treats U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, and U+201B as single-quote delimiters, allowing an attacker-controlled filename to terminate the intended path literal and append PowerShell statements that execute as the victim SSH account when server-side hashing is invoked. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Metrics threat_severity

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threat_severity

Important


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First Time appeared Rclone
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Vendors & Products Rclone
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Description rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShell hash commands in backend/sftp/sftp.go, and quoteOrEscapeShellPath escapes only ASCII apostrophe even though PowerShell treats U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, and U+201B as single-quote delimiters, allowing an attacker-controlled filename to terminate the intended path literal and append PowerShell statements that execute as the victim SSH account when server-side hashing is invoked. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.
Title rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution
Weaknesses CWE-78
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-08-05T20:37:49.029Z

Updated: 2026-08-06T14:44:18.116Z

Reserved: 2026-08-05T18:14:42.064Z

Link: CVE-2026-71312

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-06T14:43:36.573Z

cve-icon NVD

No data.

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-08-05T20:37:49Z

Links: CVE-2026-71312 - Bugzilla