What is CVE-2026-71310?

CVE-2026-71310 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rclone, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2026-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2026-71310?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Rclone

CVE-2026-71310

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.0, the shared HTTP CONNECT helper in lib/proxy/http.go parses proxy CONNECT responses with http.ReadResponse over a…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Rclone — versions < 1.75.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-71310?: CVE-2026-71310 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rclone, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2026-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2026-71310?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.