TI-2024-35193 Aliases CVE-2024-52522 GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv

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

LOW 24CWE-281Published 2024-11-15 · Updated 2024-11-21

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Active
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: Present
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat.

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00241 15th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial rclone (rclone): 1.68.2github.com/rclone/rclone (Go): 1.68.2Red Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
rclone	rclone	1.59.0 to before 1.68.2	1.68.2	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/rclone/rclone (Go)	1.59.0 to before 1.68.2	1.68.2	Patch available	GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv

rclone Vendorrclone Affected 1.59.0 to before 1.68.2 Fixed in 1.68.2 Patch available CNA
github.com/rclone/rclone (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.59.0 to before 1.68.2 Fixed in 1.68.2 Patch available GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone::::::::	—	—	rclone

cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·rclone

Remediation

Fix · CNA rclone (rclone) Fixed in 1.68.2
Fix · GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv github.com/rclone/rclone (Go) Fixed in 1.68.2 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-52522
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hrxh-9w67-g4cv

References

Advisory 1

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

Other 3

TI-2026-60044 rclone serve s3: --auth-proxy without --auth-key authenticates nobody - full SigV4 signature bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2026-29802 RClone: Unauthenticated operations/fsinfo allows attacker-controlled backend instantiation and local command execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
TI-2026-29799 Rclone: Unauthenticated options/set allows runtime auth bypass, leading to sensitive operations and command execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
TI-2026-60064 rclone: RC per-server auth-proxy bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2026-42602 Path traversal in rclone CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2026-60065 rclone: S3 multipart declared-length memory exhaustion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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