rclone: Verbose Stack Trace Disclosure in RC API Error Responses

Overview

Summary

When an RC API call triggers a panic (recovered by the job runner), the full Go stack trace is included in the JSON error response. This leaks internal file paths, Go module versions, goroutine state, and memory addresses to the API caller.

Details

The panic recovery in fs/rc/jobs/job.go:110-115:

func (j *Job) run(ctx context.Context, fn rc.Func, in rc.Params) {
    defer func() {
        if r := recover(); r != nil {
            j.mu.Lock()
            j.EndTime = time.Now()
            j.Error = fmt.Sprintf("panic received: %v \n%s", r, string(debug.Stack()))
            // ...
        }
    }()

The full debug.Stack() output is placed into j.Error, which is then returned in the HTTP response JSON.

PoC

Trigger a parse error by setting config path to a non-INI file, then calling dump:

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:5572/config/setpath \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"path":"/etc/hostname"}' 

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:5572/config/dump

Response includes:

{
  "error": "panic received: fatal error: Failed to load config file \"/etc/hostname\": could not parse line: ... \ngoroutine 9 [running]:\nruntime/debug.Stack()\n\truntime/debug/stack.go:26 +0x64\ngithub.com/rclone/rclone/fs/rc/jobs.(*Job).run.func1()\n\tgithub.com/rclone/rclone/fs/rc/jobs/job.go:112 +0x34\n...",
  "status": 500
}

Disclosed information includes:

• Full filesystem paths (github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config/config.go:377)
• Go module versions (github.com/go-chi/chi/[email protected])
• Go runtime version (from binary)
• Goroutine IDs and states
• Memory addresses (ASLR leak)
• File contents (first unparseable line of the target file)

Tested and confirmed on rclone v1.74.4.

Impact

Information disclosure that aids exploitation of other vulnerabilities. Stack traces reveal internal architecture, dependency versions (useful for known-CVE targeting), and memory layout. The error message also leaks partial file contents (the first line that fails INI parsing), which can be used alongside the arbitrary file read finding as a complementary file read primitive for non-INI files.

Affected Versions

All versions with RC API support through at least v1.74.4.

Remediation

Return a generic error message to the API caller. Log the full stack trace server-side only. Strip debug.Stack() from HTTP responses.

Affected packages

• github.com/rclone/rclone <= 1.74.4

Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

• github.com/rclone/rclone 1.75.0