CVE-2026-88015: rclone local: crafted Range request against a translated symlink panics (DoS)

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-09-10 · updated 2026-09-23
Weakness: CWE-190

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 products

rclone: before 1.75.1 — fixed in 1.75.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rclone 1.75.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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