Vulmon
Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1486
Advisory Release Date: 2021-03-18 17:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-03-19 22:54 Pacific
A flaw was found in cloud-init, where it uses the random.choice function when creating sensitive random strings used for generating a random password in new instances. Depending on the instance configuration, a remote or local attacker may abuse this vulnerability to guess the password of the victim user. (CVE-2020-8631)
A flaw was found in cloud-init, where it uses short passwords when generating a random password in new instances. Depending on the instance configuration, a remote or local attacker may abuse this vulnerability to guess the password of the victim user. (CVE-2020-8632)
A vulnerability was discovered in cloud-init which can improperly disclose randomly generated passwords as part of the chpasswd module. The fix prevents the generated password from being written to a world-readable log file on the local disk. (CVE-2021-3429)
Affected Packages:
cloud-init
Issue Correction:
Run yum update cloud-init to update your system.
noarch:
cloud-init-0.7.6-43.23.amzn1.noarch
src:
cloud-init-0.7.6-43.23.amzn1.src