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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-02-05T13:39:50

Updated: 2024-08-04T10:03:46.363Z

Reserved: 2020-02-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-8631

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-02-05T14:15:11.607

Modified: 2021-12-22T18:18:09.390

Link: CVE-2020-8631

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-02-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-8631 - Bugzilla