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rclone Archive Backend SquashFS Parser Denial of Service

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rclone versions >= v1.72.0 and <= v1.74.4 (fixed in v1.75.0) contain multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the archive backend's SquashFS parser, which relies on the github.com/diskfs/go-diskfs dependency. The parser fails to validate attacker-controlled superblock and metadata values before use. An attacker who can place or modify a SquashFS image in storage exposed through an rclone :archive: remote can craft a malicious image that triggers an integer division-by-zero panic (zero block size), an out-of-bounds slice panic (out-of-range inode metadata offset), or a non-progress CPU loop (truncated metadata stream). Variants 1 and 2 terminate the rclone process and, via 'rclone serve sftp', can crash the entire SFTP server; variant 3 causes sustained CPU consumption. Parsing is lazy, so a victim or remote client must address or descend into the malicious archive object to trigger it.

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BIT-rclone-2026-79775

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: osv:BIT-rclone-2026-79775

rclone

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
Not stated in this record
Fixed versions
1.75.0

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "1.72.0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "1.75.0"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "rclone",
      "purl": "pkg:bitnami/rclone",
      "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
    },
    "severity": [
      {
        "type": "CVSS_V4",
        "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"
      }
    ],
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/rclone/BIT-rclone-2026-79775.json"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-79775

Source reference: /aliases

Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

Event
#15268 · Revision 1
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