CVE-2020-8631

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 5, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Feb 5, 2020

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795
[debian-lts-announce] 20200221 [SECURITY] [DLA 2113-1] cloud-init security updatemailing-list
openSUSE-SU-2020:0400vendor-advisory

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