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SCA: security update for github.com/rclone/rclone (GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418826

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2020-28924)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rmw5-xpg9-jr29

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418826

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28924

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28924