MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft
CVE-2020-8631
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.
Microsoft Security Update 2020-Feb: 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.
Affected Products
- cm1 cloud-init 19.1-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8631
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8631
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2020-02-11 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 cloud-init 19.1-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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