Directory Traversal Affecting rclone package, versions <1.75.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-RCLONE-22140085
  • published3 Nov 2026
  • disclosed25 Oct 2026

Introduced: 25 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-116195  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 rclone to version 1.75.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rclone package and not the rclone package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

Rclone before 1.75.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the local backend's translateLink function, which trims the .rclonelink suffix from a path after the containment check, so a name can resolve outside the destination root. Attackers can plant a directory named ...rclonelink in a source tree synced with --links and --metadata to change ownership, timestamps, and xattrs of the destination's parent directory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1