Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2026
rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution
CVE-2026-71312
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.
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3- github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a57641b63a580aa26c026903a84e2e88mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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