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
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00042.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00021.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2020-02-05T13:39:50
Updated: 2020-03-29T05:06:08
Reserved: 2020-02-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-8631
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2020-02-05T14:15:11.607
Modified: 2021-12-22T18:18:09.390
Link: CVE-2020-8631
JSON object: View
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CWE