debian · CVE-2020-8631

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:01:35 GMT

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CVE-2020-8631 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cloud-init), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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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