CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28924

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-11-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-331, CWE-338

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• rclone rclone (< 1.53.3) • fedoraproject fedora 33

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-331 Insufficient Entropy weakness
  • CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness

References