CVE-2021-3429mediumCWE-532

CVE-2021-3429: medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ltd. cloud-init

sensitive data exposure in cloud-init logs

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.2%
When instructing cloud-init to set a random password for a new user account, versions before 21.2 would write that password to the world-readable log file /var/log/cloud-init-output.log. This could allow a local user to log in as another user.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Canonical Ltd. · cloud-init
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