CVE-2021-3429 (GCVE-0-2021-3429)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-19 21:42
Modified
2025-02-05 14:44
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
When instructing cloud-init to set a random password for a new user account, versions before 21.2 would write that password to the world-readable log file /var/log/cloud-init-output.log. This could allow a local user to log in as another user.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/b794d426b9ab43ea9d6371477466070d86e10668Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/b794d426b9ab43ea9d6371477466070d86e10668Patch
Impacted products
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Canonical Ltd. cloud-init Version: 0   ≤
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