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CVE-2024-52522 (GCVE-0-2024-52522)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-15 17:15 – Updated: 2024-11-21 14:56
VLAI
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.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-15 18:25 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
  • CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
  • CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
rclone rclone Affected: >= 1.59.0, < 1.68.2
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