CVE-2020-8632

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-521

Description

In cloud-init through 19.4, rand_user_password in cloudinit/config/cc_set_passwords.py has a small default pwlen value, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords.

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/189
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/189
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00021.html

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