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

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52522",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Rclone Improper Permission and Ownership Handling on Symlink Targets with --links and --metadata",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-52522",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
        "BIT-rclone-2024-52522",
        "CVE-2024-52522",
        "GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv",
        "GO-2024-3271"
      ],
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          "score": "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"
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              "type": "GIT",
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                        "fixed": "1.68.2"
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                    "strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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            "v1.68.0",
            "v1.67.0",
            "v1.66.0",
            "v1.65.0",
            "v1.64.0",
            "v1.63.0",
            "v1.62.0",
            "v1.61.0",
            "v1.60.0",
            "v1.59.0"
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            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-52522.json"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.043236687Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/52xxx/CVE-2024-52522.json",
        "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"
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      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
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          "CWE-59",
          "CWE-61"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494724,
  "published_at": "2024-11-15T17:15:43.357+00:00"
}