CVE-2020-28924

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.

Bugs

• <https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/4783&gt;
• <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=975324&gt;

Notes