CVE-2026-41176
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
Rclone: Unauthenticated options/set allows runtime auth bypass, leading to sensitive operations and command execution
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Affected | — |
| forky | Affected | — |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/rclone/rclone | >=1.45.0,<1.73.5 | 1.73.5 |
| Go | github.com/rclone/rclone | <1.73.5 | 1.73.5 |
| GO | github.com/rclone/rclone | >= 1.45.0, < 1.73.5 | 1.73.5 |
References
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-25qr-6mpr-f7qx
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41176
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/bf55d5e6d37fd86164a87782191f9e1ffcaafa82/fs/rc/config.go
- https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/bf55d5e6d37fd86164a87782191f9e1ffcaafa82/fs/rc/rcserver/rcserver.go
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-41176
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-25qr-6mpr-f7qx
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.