CVE-2020-8631

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / cloud-init

Package

Name: cloud-init
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/cloud-init?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

19.4-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / cloud-init

Package

Name: cloud-init
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/cloud-init?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

19.4-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / cloud-init

Package

Name: cloud-init
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/cloud-init?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

19.4-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/canonical/cloud-init

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Last affected

a1063b89e32fa698382bb9617632c0b5f206cdb4

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.0

0.5.1

0.5.10

0.5.11

0.5.12

0.5.13

0.5.14

0.5.15

0.5.16pre1

0.5.2

0.5.3

0.5.4

0.5.5

0.5.6

0.5.8

0.6.0

0.6.1

0.6.2

0.6.3

0.7.0

0.7.1

0.7.2

0.7.3

0.7.4

0.7.5

0.7.6

0.7.7

0.7.8

0.7.9

17.*

17.1

17.2

18.*

18.1

18.2

18.3

18.4

18.5

19.*

19.1

19.2

19.3

19.4