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Medium severityOSV Advisory· Published Nov 15, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-52522

CVE-2024-52522

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/rclone/rcloneGo
>= 1.59.0, < 1.68.21.68.2

Affected products

11

Patches

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