Command execution via PowerShell smart quotes in github.com/rclone/rclone
PowerShell treats several Unicode smart-quote characters (U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, U+201B) as single-quote delimiters in addition to ASCII apostrophe. When interpolating remote SFTP paths into PowerShell commands, rclone only escapes the ASCII apostrophe, allowing an attacker to craft a filename with smart quotes that closes the path literal and injects arbitrary PowerShell commands executed on the SFTP remote as the victim's SSH account.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-71312US | — | — | ||
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShel… | ||||
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