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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52522
• https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/01ccf204f42b4f68541b16843292439090a2dcf0
• https://github.com/rclone/rclone
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-52522