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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.4 Medium

CVE-2024-52522

Rclone Improper Permission and Ownership Handling on Symlink Targets with --links and --metadata

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

rclone rclone

  • >= 1.59.0, < 1.68.2affected

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