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CVE-2020-8631

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-330
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

References

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