Check Point Advisories

Rclone Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-41176)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2026-4512
Date Published: 17 May 2026
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Sunday 30 August, 2026
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2026-41176
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Rclone 1.45 and later, prior to 1.73.5
Vulnerability Description An authentication bypass vulnerability in Rclone allows remote attackers to disable the authorization gate for many RC methods registered with `AuthRequired: true` on reachable RC servers that are started without global HTTP authentication. This can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive administrative functionality, including configuration and operational RC methods.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Rclone Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-41176) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Application Intelligence.
Attack Information:  Rclone Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-41176)

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