Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3429

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-04-19 21:42:02

Last updated 2025-02-05 14:44:18

Assigner canonical

State PUBLISHED

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.

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