CVE-2020-8632

cloud-init: Too short random password length in cc_set_password in config/cc_set_passwords.py

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

8.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 5, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in cloud-init, where it uses short passwords when generating a random password in new instances. Depending on the instance configuration, a remote or local attacker may abuse this vulnerability to guess the password of the victim user.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-330 · Use of Insufficiently Random Values