7.1 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
3.6 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
18.5%
The cloud-init packages provide a set of init scripts for cloud instances. Cloud instances need special scripts to run during initialization to retrieve and install SSH keys, and to let the user run various scripts.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: cloud-init (19.4). (BZ#1803094)
Security Fix(es):
cloud-init: Use of random.choice when generating random password (CVE-2020-8631)
cloud-init: Too short random password length in cc_set_password in config/cc_set_passwords.py (CVE-2020-8632)
cloud-init: default configuration disabled deletion of SSH host keys (CVE-2018-10896)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 7 | s390x | cloud-init | < 19.4-7.el7 | cloud-init-19.4-7.el7.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 7 | ppc64 | cloud-init | < 19.4-7.el7 | cloud-init-19.4-7.el7.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 7 | x86_64 | cloud-init | < 19.4-7.el7 | cloud-init-19.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 7 | ppc64le | cloud-init | < 19.4-7.el7 | cloud-init-19.4-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm |
7.1 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
3.6 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
18.5%