CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability affects the rclone command-line tool versions 1.51.0 to 1.75.0 on Windows, where improper handling of filename encoding allows an attacker to manipulate file paths. This can lead to unauthorized file creation or overwriting outside the intended destination directory, posing a risk of data exposure or system compromise. Organizations using affected versions of rclone should prioritize upgrading to version 1.75.0 or later to mitigate this risk.
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Original NVD Description
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From v1.51.0 until v1.75.0, the local backend in backend/local/local.go relies on the configurable filename encoder to prevent remote filename data from becoming operating-system path syntax, so a local destination using Slash, None, Raw, or on Windows an encoding that preserves backslash can decode a standard-encoded fullwidth dot-dot component or native backslash form into an actual parent-directory component before filepath.Join resolves it outside the configured local root, allowing an attacker-controlled source object to create or overwrite files outside the selected destination directory as the rclone process. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.