CVE-2024-52522

Name	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
rclone (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	1.35-1+deb8u1	vulnerable
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	1.45-3+deb10u1	vulnerable
	bullseye	1.53.3-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.60.1+dfsg-2	vulnerable
	sid, trixie	1.60.1+dfsg-4	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
rclone	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
rclone	source	buster	(unfixed)	end-of-life
rclone	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisories/GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/01ccf204f42b4f68541b16843292439090a2dcf0 (master)
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/669b2f2669cacd634faa2bcecb589b76e1402533 (v1.68.2)