{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2020-8631", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204" }, { "url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795" }, { "refsource": "MLIST", "name": "[debian-lts-announce] 20200221 [SECURITY] [DLA 2113-1] cloud-init security update", "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00021.html" }, { "refsource": "SUSE", "name": "openSUSE-SU-2020:0400", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00042.html" } ] } }