CVE-2026-79782 (GCVE-0-2026-79782)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-25 15:16 – Updated: 2026-08-25 15:16
VLAI
Title
rclone before 1.74.4 Security Token Disclosure via HTTPS to HTTP Redirect
Summary
rclone before 1.74.4 fails to strip the X-Amz-Security-Token header when an S3 redirect changes scheme from HTTPS to HTTP on the same host. Attackers can intercept plaintext HTTP traffic to capture AWS STS session tokens sent in request headers.
CWE
  • CWE-319 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
rclone rclone Affected: 0 , < 1.74.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 1.74.4 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2026-07-08 00:00
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