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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2024-52522 json

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

published 2024-11-15 23 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-rclone-2024-52522 , EUVD-2024-3358 , GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv , GO-2024-3271 , JLSEC-2026-279

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/rclone/rclone 1.68.2
  • bitnami rclone 1.68.2
  • julia Rclone_jll 1.69.0+0
  • rclone rclone 1.68.2
  • rclone openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.68.2-2.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241119T173509-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14524-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14513-1

  • rclone Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 1.68.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-52522

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-52522 updated cvss 6.8

rclone: librclone: improper permission and ownership handling on symlink targets with --links and --metadata

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 volsync-container
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA 4.0 5.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/rclone/rclone
>=1.59.0, <1.68.2
1.68.2
bitnami rclone
>=1.59.0, <1.68.2
1.68.2
julia Rclone_jll
<1.69.0+0
1.69.0+0

Affected products

  • rclone rclone

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.