CVE-2021-3429

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CVSS v3
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS v2
N/A
Affected
1
PROJECT

Description

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.

Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
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