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.
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cve-icon 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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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-02-05T14:15:11.607

Modified: 2021-12-22T18:18:09.390


Link: CVE-2020-8631

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