
🚨High - rclone serve restic Path Traversal via WithRemote Middleware (CVE-2026-71309) In rclone `serve restic`, the REST API middleware `WithRemote` performs incomplete path validation and fails to reject URL paths starting with "../". An attacker with access to the REST endpoint can traverse outside the configured backend subdir to read/create/overwrite/delete objects beyond the operator-set root on WebDAV/FTP/HTTP/Memory/SFTP backends. 👉Affected: http://github.com/rclone/rclone 1.40.0-1.74.4 | Upgrade to 1.75.0
Post summary
The tweet reveals a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in rclone serve restic and advises users to upgrade to version 1.75.0 for mitigation.


