Red Hat Security Advisory: cloud-init security update
An update for cloud-init is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-3429US | medium5.5 | — | ||
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-outpu… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
remediations (2)
- Fixedcloud-init-0:20.3-10.el8_4.5.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3081 - Fixedcloud-init-0:20.3-10.el8_4.5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3081
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