CVE-2026-79778: Rclone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rclone before v1.75.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the WebDAV TUS creation handler that dereferences a nil response before checking for transport errors. A malicious or compromised configured endpoint can reset connections during TUS uploads to trigger a panic that terminates unrecovered goroutines and halts unrelated work in long-lived processes.

Affected products

• Rclone Rclone: before 1.75.0 (fixed in 1.75.0)

Published 2026-08-25. Last modified 2026-09-10.