With -l/--links rclone recreates a .rclonelink object as a symlink. A
malicious or compromised source could serve a symlink whose target points
outside the destination, plus a sibling object whose path traverses it, so
that rclone followed the planted symlink and wrote outside the destination
causing arbitrary file write.
When translating symlinks, rclone now performs all destination writes
(directory creation, file writes and symlink creation) through an os.Root
anchored at the destination. os.Root resolves every path component relative
to the destination's file descriptor and refuses any that escapes the root,
even under concurrent modification, so a planted symlink can never be
traversed out of the destination.
Symlinks are still reproduced verbatim - including ones whose target points
outside the destination - so backups remain faithful. Only writing
*through* such a link is refused. In-tree symlinks are unaffected.
Fixes CVE-2026-54572
Fixes GHSA-cf44-9pgv-m4xc
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Replace custom rem hugo shortcode template with HTML comment. HTML comments are now
allowed in Hugo without enabling unsafe HTML parsing.
Improve the text in the comment: Remove unnecessary quoting, and avoid impression that
make backenddocs has to be run and results committed, since we have a lint check which
will then report error because we want to prevent manual changes in autogenerated sections.
Disable the markdownlint rule line-length on the autogenerated marker line.
Make the autogenerated marker detection a bit more robust.
See #8942 for more details.
Before this change the --links flag when using the VFS override the
--links flag for the local backend which meant the local backend
needed explicit config to use links.
This fixes the problem by making the --links flag global and adding a
new --local-links flag and --vfs-links flags to control the features
individually if required.
Some virtual filesystems (such as Google Drive File Stream) may
incorrectly set the actual file size equal to the preallocated space,
causing checksum and file size checks to fail.
This flag can be used to disable preallocation for local backends of
this type.
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