rclone serve s3 before 1.74.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to read and overwrite root-level files by using dot-dot segments in S3 object keys. Attackers can send requests with object keys like ../root-secret.txt to escape the bucket namespace and access files in the serve root directory.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22"
],
"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/79xxx/CVE-2026-79781.json"
}{
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"DESCRIPTION"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.74.4"
},
{
"introduced": "s3"
}
]
}