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CVE-2024-52522

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52522

Severity

5.5

Medium

CVSS V3

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.

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-5j4x-ppm9-wvx5

Affected packages


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