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CVE-2024-52522: Rclone Improper Permission and Ownership Handling on Symlink Targets with --links and --metadata

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Insecure handling of symlinks with --links and --metadata in rclone while copying to local disk allows unprivileged users to indirectly modify ownership and permissions on symlink target files when a superuser or privileged process performs a copy. This vulnerability could enable privilege escalation and unauthorized access to critical system files, compromising system integrity, confidentiality, and availability. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.68.2.

Affected products

• rclone: from 1.59.0, < 1.68.2

References

• https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/01ccf204f42b4f68541b16843292439090a2dcf0
• https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv

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