GHSA-3x6r-wxxg-53vv: github.com/rclone/rclone (CVE-2026-79778)

rclone: Infinite Scale TUS Creation Transport Error Causes a Nil-Response Panic

CVSS 6.0 MediumEPSS 0.0029 · 21st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 5 Aug 2026, 20:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
github.com/rclone/rclone	Go	<1.75.0	1.75.0

Identifiers

GHSA-3x6r-wxxg-53vv · BIT-rclone-2026-79778 · CVE-2026-79778 · GO-2026-6183

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-248 · CWE-476

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

rclone before 1.75.0 panics when a transport error occurs during an Infinite Scale TUS upload. A malicious or compromised configured endpoint that resets connections can trigger this, which may terminate the process in long-running VFS mounts. Upgrade to rclone 1.75.0.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.0	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0029, the 21st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:13 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:13 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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