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High · 7.5 CVE-2020-28924 BIT-rclone-2020-28924EUVD-2021-1401GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29GO-2022-0878

Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator in Rclone

Published Nov 19, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 rclone 1.53.3-1 —
Debian 12 rclone 1.53.3-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2 rclone 1.53.3-bp152.2.4.11 openSUSE-SU-2021:0272-1
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1 rclone 1.53.3-bp151.4.6.1 openSUSE-SU-2020:2168-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed rclone 1.55.1-1.3 openSUSE-SU-2024:11297-1
openSUSE Leap 15.2 rclone 1.53.3-lp152.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2020:2008-1
openSUSE Leap 15.1 rclone 1.53.3-lp151.3.6.1 openSUSE-SU-2020:2035-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rclone/rclone < 1.53.3 1.53.3 GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29

Advisories 5

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