vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6042-1 (CVE-2023-1786): Cloud-init vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 26, 2023
Added
May 1, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of cloud-init before version 23.1.2. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-cloud-init
Title
NEW

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