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TI-2020-17456 Aliases CVE-2020-28924GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29

An issue was discovered in Rclone before 1.53.3.

Priority LOW 36CWE-331Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and 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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01381 72nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed github.com/rclone/rclone (Go): 1.53.3

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
—github.com/rclone/rclone (Go)before 1.53.31.53.3Patch availableGHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • github.com/rclone/rclone (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.53.3 Fixed in 1.53.3 Patch available GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.53.3Vulnerablerclone
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*33VulnerableFedoraproject
  • cpe:2.3:a:rclone:rclone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.53.3 Vulnerable ·rclone
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 33 Vulnerable ·Fedoraproject

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29 github.com/rclone/rclone (Go) Fixed in 1.53.3 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-28924
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29

References

Exploit 1

Advisory 4

Other 2

Sources

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