BIT-rclone-2020-28924

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    BIT-rclone-2020-28924

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Rclone before 1.53.3. Due to the use of a weak random number generator, the password generator has been producing weak passwords with much less entropy than advertised. The suggested passwords depend deterministically on the time the second rclone was started. This limits the entropy of the passwords enormously. These passwords are often used in the crypt backend for encryption of data. It would be possible to make a dictionary of all possible passwords with about 38 million entries per password length. This would make decryption of secret material possible with a plausible amount of effort. NOTE: all passwords generated by affected versions should be changed.

    References: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/4783, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UJIFT24Q6EFXLQZ24AER2QGFFZLMIPCD/, https://rclone.org/downloads/, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-14, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28924

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rclone

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/rclone

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.53.3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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