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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3429: Security patch for cloud-init (ALAS-2021-1486)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3429: Security patch for cloud-init (ALAS-2021-1486)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/18/2021
Created
03/23/2021
Added
03/20/2021
Modified
05/08/2023

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From ALAS-2021-1486:

A flaw was found in cloud-init, where it uses the random.choice function when creating sensitive random strings used for generating a random password in new instances. Depending on the instance configuration, a remote or local attacker may abuse this vulnerability to guess the password of the victim user. (CVE-2020-8631)

A flaw was found in cloud-init, where it uses short passwords when generating a random password in new instances. Depending on the instance configuration, a remote or local attacker may abuse this vulnerability to guess the password of the victim user. (CVE-2020-8632)

A vulnerability was discovered in cloud-init which can improperly disclose randomly generated passwords as part of the chpasswd module. The fix prevents the generated password from being written to a world-readable log file on the local disk. (CVE-2021-3429)

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-cloud-init

References

  • ALAS-2021-1486
  • CVE-2021-3429

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