CVE-2020-8631 vulnerability in Canonical and Other Products
Published on February 5, 2020
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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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.12%
Percentile
30.36%
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