Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting rclone package, versions <1.75.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-RCLONE-22140093
  • published3 Nov 2026
  • disclosed25 Oct 2026

Introduced: 25 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-116189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (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 from 1.55.0 before 1.75.2 contains a signature verification bypass in stable selfupdate that trusts checksums from unsigned bytes preceding the PGP-clearsigned SHA256SUMS block. Attackers controlling the release distribution path can prepend an unsigned checksum line matching a malicious archive, causing selfupdate to install an attacker-controlled rclone executable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1