Rclone up to 1.68.1 permissions

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Rclone up to 1.68.1 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to permissions. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-52522. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Rclone up to 1.68.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permissions vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-281. The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-52522 since 11/11/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214053 (Fedora 41 : golang-github-aws-sdk-2 / golang-github-aws-smithy / etc (2025-0620fdebb6)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.68.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 01ccf204f42b4f68541b16843292439090a2dcf0 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (214053). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Rclone

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• 1.68.0
• 1.68.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/

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