GO-2026-6182
Command execution via PowerShell smart quotes in github.com/rclone/rclone
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-71312
- Aliases
- BIT-rclone-2026-71312, GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2
Description
PowerShell treats several Unicode smart-quote characters (U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, U+201B) as single-quote delimiters in addition to ASCII apostrophe. When interpolating remote SFTP paths into PowerShell commands, rclone only escapes the ASCII apostrophe, allowing an attacker to craft a filename with smart quotes that closes the path literal and injects arbitrary PowerShell commands executed on the SFTP remote as the victim's SSH account.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Go · github.com/rclone/rclone | introduced 0, fixed 1.75.0 |
References
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8m-jhrm-w6j2 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a57641b63a580aa26c026903a84e2e88 FIX
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database |