vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-8631: Security patch for cloud-init (ALAS-2021-1576)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Feb 5, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | Sep 30, 2022 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 5, 2020
Added
Jan 8, 2021
Modified
Sep 30, 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
amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-cloud-init
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