CVE-2020-28924

An issue was discovered in Rclone before 1.53.3

published November 19, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
71.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01364 · 71.6th percentile
Published
2020-11-19T19:32Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 NOV 19:32Z
    An issue was discovered in Rclone before 1.53.3
    cvelistv5