CVE-2026-54572 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2026-54572 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	CNA (GitHub)	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	7.5	8.8	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Attack Vector	Network	Network	Network
Attack Complexity	High	Low	High
Privileges Required	None	None	None
User Interaction	Required	Required	Required
Scope	Changed	Changed	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	Low	Low	Low
Integrity Impact	High	High	High
Availability Impact	Low	Low	Low
CVSSv3 Version	3.1	3.1	3.1

CVSS v4 Scores
CVSS detail	SUSE
Base Score	5.1
Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:L
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Attack Requirements	Present
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Active
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact	None
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact	None
Vulnerable System Availability Impact	None
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact	Low
Subsequent System Integrity Impact	High
Subsequent System Availability Impact	Low
CVSSv4 Version	4.0

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1271452 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`rclone >= 1.74.4-1.1` `rclone-bash-completion >= 1.74.4-1.1` `rclone-zsh-completion >= 1.74.4-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-11241

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jul 10 11:31:19 2026
CVE page last modified: Wed Jul 22 13:32:22 2026