rclone Archive Backend SquashFS Parser Denial of Service
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.
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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- Publisher date