CVE-2020-8631

Published: Feb 5, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

cloud-init through 19.4 relies on Mersenne Twister for a random password, which makes it easier for attackers to predict passwords, because rand_str in cloudinit/util.py calls the random.choice function.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204

x_refsource_MISC

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795

x_refsource_MISC

[debian-lts-announce] 20200221 [SECURITY] [DLA 2113-1] cloud-init security update

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

openSUSE-SU-2020:0400

vendor-advisory

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CVE-2020-8631

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