CVE-2026-71311

rclone: FTP Command Arguments Permit CRLF Injection When Custom Encoding Preserves Newlines

Published Aug 5, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.0, a valid but nondefault FTP filename encoding in backend/ftp/ftp.go can restore raw CR/LF immediately before an attacker-controlled path is interpolated into the line-oriented FTP control channel, and github.com/jlaffaye/ftp formats the argument through textproto.Conn.Cmd without rejecting CR or LF, allowing a filename such as victim CRLF DELE other-secret CRLF NOOP to inject an independent authenticated FTP command when the victim copies or syncs to a more-privileged FTP destination. This issue is fixed in 1.75.0.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8c48-q9wj-3w37 rclone: FTP Command Arguments Permit CRLF Injection When Custom Encoding Preserves Newlines
History
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Metrics ssvc

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

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First Time appeared Rclone
Rclone rclone
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 1.75.0, a valid but nondefault FTP filename encoding in backend/ftp/ftp.go can restore raw CR/LF immediately before an attacker-controlled path is interpolated into the line-oriented FTP control channel, and github.com/jlaffaye/ftp formats the argument through textproto.Conn.Cmd without rejecting CR or LF, allowing a filename such as victim CRLF DELE other-secret CRLF NOOP to inject an independent authenticated FTP command when the victim copies or syncs to a more-privileged FTP destination. This issue is fixed in 1.75.0.
Title rclone: FTP Command Arguments Permit CRLF Injection When Custom Encoding Preserves Newlines
Weaknesses CWE-93
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2026, 6:44 PM
Reserved
Aug 5, 2026, 6:14 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Aug 5, 2026, 9:16 PM
Modified
Sep 9, 2026, 8:50 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 5, 2026, 8:33 PM