GHSA-F8G7-2XJC-7MFH rclone: Directory metadata (chmod/chown/chtimes) applied through a planted symlink in rclone local --links escapes the destination

Summary With -l/--links, rclone's local backend recreates a source .rclonelink object as a real symlink at the destination verbatim preserved by design for faithful backups. Directory-metadata application, however, does not go through the os.Root sandbox and does not use NOFOLLOW syscalls. A loca...

CVE-2026-88016 rclone: Directory metadata (chmod/chown/chtimes) applied through a planted symlink in rclone local --links escapes the destination

rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.1, when backend/local runs with --links, a source .rclonelink object can plant a symlink in the destination and later directory metadata is applied through that path...