JLSEC-2026-278

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Source
https://github.com/JuliaLang/SecurityAdvisories.jl/blob/main/advisories/published/2026/JLSEC-2026-278.md
Import Source
https://github.com/JuliaLang/SecurityAdvisories.jl/tree/generated/osv/2026/JLSEC-2026-278.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/JLSEC-2026-278
Upstream
Published
2026-04-27T20:35:04.206Z
Modified
2026-04-27T20:45:06.432727Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "sources": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2020-28924",
            "database_specific": {
                "status": "Modified"
            },
            "imported": "2026-04-27T16:35:59.524Z",
            "url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-28924",
            "html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28924",
            "modified": "2024-11-21T05:23:18.297Z",
            "published": "2020-11-19T20:15:12.983Z"
        }
    ],
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0"
}
References

Affected packages

Julia / Rclone_jll

Package

Name
Rclone_jll
Purl
pkg:julia/Rclone_jll?uuid=d3707c4a-c138-5086-90bb-c65de4e50315

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.55.1+0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/JuliaLang/SecurityAdvisories.jl/tree/generated/osv/2026/JLSEC-2026-278.json"