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CVE-2020-28924GO-2022-0878BIT-RCLONE-2020-28924GHSA-RMW5-XPG9-JR29

An issue was discovered in Rclone before 1.53.3.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.53.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • github.com/rclone/rcloneGo

    fixed in 1.53.3

References 4

rclone.org

GitHub · rclone/rclone

lists.fedoraproject.org

security.gentoo.org