← back
CVE-2020-8631

CVE-2020-8631

EPSS 0.4%
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
n/a · n/a

Want to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?

Talk to TrueHacking →
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00042.htmlhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00021.html