Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-8631: Security patch for cloud-init (ALAS-2021-1576)
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
02/05/2020
01/09/2021
01/08/2021
07/14/2022
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-cloud-init
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