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DEBIAN-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 i...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 cloud-init

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"19.4-2"}]}]

Debian:13 cloud-init

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"19.4-2"}]}]

Debian:14 cloud-init

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"19.4-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org