CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
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CVE
CVE-2020-8631
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.43%
Original NVD Description
cloud-init through 19.4 relies on Mersenne Twister for a random password, which makes it easier for attackers to predict passwords, because rand_str in cloudinit/util.py calls the random.choice function.
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