Vulnerability · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-88015rclone local: crafted Range request against a translated symlink panics (DoS)
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity integer overflow in rclone from rclone. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, backend/local with --links or links=true exposes symlink targets as .rclonelink objects, and fs.RangeOption.Decode can pass an unchecked positive Range start through Object.Open and openTranslatedLink. The function slices the target string as linkdst[offset:], so a Range start larger than the target length causes a deterministic slice-bounds panic when lib/http/serve exposes the object through HTTP or WebDAV. Go net/http normally recovers the panic per connection, causing request-level denial of service rather than terminating the entire process. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | rclone | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88015 |
| Debian:13 | rclone | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88015 |
| Go | github.com/rclone/rclone | 1.75.1 | GHSA-p6m2-r3w9-mpxw |
| Go | github.com/rclone/rclone | 1.75.1 | GO-2026-6461 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | rclone | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-88015 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-190, CWE-248 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
References
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-p6m2-r3w9-mpxw x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/28bf49d66f94acc3f4f7f318504a706686281af9 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.1 x_refsource_MISC