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CVE-2021-3429

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in canonical cloud-init. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-532
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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