CVE-2026-54572: Rclone

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.74.4, with -l/--links, rclone serializes symlinks as .rclonelink text objects and recreates them on a local destination without validating the target, allowing an attacker-controlled remote to plant an escaping symlink and cause a following object write to land outside the destination with attacker-chosen contents. This issue is fixed in version 1.74.4.

Affected products

• Rclone Rclone: before 1.74.4 (fixed in 1.74.4)

Published 2026-07-14. Last modified 2026-07-17.