highCVSS 7.3Vulnerability

CVE-2026-88017

## Summary The FTP auth-proxy driver stores one obscured password per username in a server-wide map. It does not bind the credential or returned VFS to the authenticated FTP session. If two accepted credentials use the same username but resolve to different proxy backends, the later login overwrites the map entry. Subsequent operations on the first, still-authenticated session are re-authorized with the later session's password and execute against the later session's backend. This is not exploitable in every auth-proxy deployment. It requires a proxy that accepts distinct credentials for the same username and returns different roots or backend configurations, plus a later login while the attacker's session remains open. The behavior is nevertheless within the supported model: `cmd/serve/proxy` keys VFS entries by username, authentication material, and client IP specifically so a new credential can produce a fresh backend. Confirmed affected versions are `v1.75.0` and development commit `5629f2668c69149bf3d9d8e2a25bb32a2648606e`. The username-global map was introduced in `v1.64.0`, but versions before credential-aware proxy caching may require cache expiration or different timing and are not claimed as confirmed here. ## Affected Assets & Attack Surface - `cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go:170-178` defines `userPass map[string]string` as driver-global state keyed only by username. - `cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go:318-335` validates `(user, pass)` through the proxy and then overwrites `d.userPass[user]`. - `cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go:352-373` retrieves the current map entry by `Sess.LoginUser()` for every filesystem operation and calls the proxy again with that password. - `cmd/serve/ftp/ftp.go:376` onward routes FTP filesystem operations through `getVFS`, including stat, listing, retrieval, upload, rename, and deletion. - `cmd/serve/proxy/proxy.go:114-119` documents credential- and client-IP-aware backend caching. - `cmd/serve/proxy/proxy.go:235-243` derives a cache key from username, cred

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-c476-6w5q-jw77
severity
high
summary
rclone: FTP cross-session auth-proxy backend confusion
cvss_score
7.3
cve_id
CVE-2026-88017
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-09-10T22:46:33Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c476-6w5q-jw77
ghsa_updated
2026-09-10T22:46:34Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]go/github.com/rclone/rclone

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]go/github.com/rclone/rclone

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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