CVE-2026-54572
CVE-2026-54572: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare source-reported impact, fixes and remediation.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.5
High [CVE-2026-54572] Arbitrary file write via malicious symbolic link handling
CVE-2026-54572Source published Source updated
Rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.74.4, with -l/--links, rclone serializes symlinks as.rclonelink text objects and recreates them on a local destination without validating the target, allowing an attacker-controlled remote to plant an escaping symlink and cause a following object write to land outside the destination with attacker-chosen contents. This issue is fixed in version 1.74.4. A remote attacker could exploit this by providing a malicious symlink, allowing subsequent file writes to occur outside the intended destination with content chosen by the attacker. This could lead to unauthorized modification of files on the system. Rclone's -l/--links option serializes symbolic links encountered during…
- Affected products in this advisory
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- Source-reported affected versions
- < 1.74.4
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 1.74.4
- Mitigation guidance
- Upgrade to rclone 1.74.4 or later, which validates symlink targets before recreating them and rejects links that would escape the destination directory. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, mitigate by avoiding the vulnerable code path: do not use the -l/--links command-line option when syncing to or from a remote that is not fully trusted, since this is what enables rclone to serialize and recreate symlinks in the first place.
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