CVE-2026-88045: high-severity vulnerability in rclone
rclone: S3 multipart declared-length memory exhaustion
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.75.0 until 1.75.1, the serve S3 streamed multipart path in cmd/serve/s3/multipart.go passes attacker-controlled contentLength to multipart.NewRW().Reserve before reading request-body bytes. waitForTurn admits the current part and one oversized part when the buffer is empty despite --multipart-streaming-buffer-limit, and lib/pool allocates 1 MiB pages according to Content-Length or X-Amz-Decoded-Content-Length. A network client can retain or multiply these reservations without sending the declared body, exhausting process or host memory or permanently blocking request handlers. Anonymous S3 deployments require no credentials, while deployments using auth_key require an accepted S3 key. This issue is fixed in version 1.75.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
rclone · rcloneRelated CVEs — rclone
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-41176CRITICALRclone: Unauthenticated options/set allows runtime auth bypass, leading to sensitive operations and command executionEPSS 32.7%CVE-2026-41179CRITICALRClone: Unauthenticated operations/fsinfo allows attacker-controlled backend instantiation and local command executionEPSS 8.6%CVE-2026-49980CRITICALRclone: Unauthenticated command execution in `rclone rcd --rc-serve` via inline remote instantiation, bypassing CVE-2026-41179 fixEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-71310MEDIUMrclone: Unbounded HTTP CONNECT Response Headers Can Exhaust rclone MemoryEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-59733HIGHrclone `serve restic --private-repos` authorization bypass: `..` in the URL path lets an authenticated user read, overwrite and delete other users' repositoriesEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-88018CRITICALrclone serve s3: --auth-proxy without --auth-key authenticates nobody - full SigV4 signature bypassEPSS 0.5%
References
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/7c1dfd99f3e6a22fcefd8686cc478226a15e63a1https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/ab1f458013aaf6356e4bdeca61f7cb9139f8eb86https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/9616https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.1https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-2p48-j3qc-rx9f