RHSA-2023:6943 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: cloud-init security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 15, 2023

Updated · July 3, 2026

Topic

An update for cloud-init is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The cloud-init packages provide a set of init scripts for cloud instances. Cloud instances need special scripts to run during initialization to retrieve and install SSH keys, and to let the user run various scripts.

Security Fix(es):

  • cloud-init: sensitive data could be exposed in logs (CVE-2023-1786)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:6943 — Red Hat Security Advisory: cloud-init security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux