CVE-2020-8631

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-330

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ltd. cloud-init: through 19.4
Debian Linux: 8.0
openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00042.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00042.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1860795
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/204
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00021.html

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