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cloud-init through 19.4 relies on Mersenne Twister for a...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

No package listedSuggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 5, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.045%
(15th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-8631

GHSA ID

GHSA-2r47-hhff-7qcp

Source code

No known source code

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