GHSA-fqj9-69pf-6pjg: github.com/rclone/rclone (CVE-2026-59733)

rclone `serve restic --private-repos` authorization bypass: `..` in the URL path lets an authenticated user read, overwrite and delete other users' repositories

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0055 · 46th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 5 Aug 2026, 20:41 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	<1.74.4	1.74.4

Identifiers

GHSA-fqj9-69pf-6pjg · BIT-rclone-2026-59733 · CVE-2026-59733 · GO-2026-6195

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-22 · CWE-639

Machine-written summary

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

rclone before 1.74.4 running serve restic with --private-repos lets an authenticated user reach other users' repositories via ".." in the URL path. Attackers can read, overwrite and delete victims' data, depending on the storage backend. Upgrade to 1.74.4; --append-only blocks overwrites and deletes but not reads.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0055, the 46th percentile, on 14 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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