cve/2020/CVE-2020-8631.md

CVE-2020-8631

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.

POC

Reference

• https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204
• https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204

Github

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