Vigil@nce - cloud-init: information disclosure via Mersenne Twister Password Prediction
March 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, SLES.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 21/02/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via Mersenne
Twister Password Prediction of cloud-init, in order to obtain
sensitive information.
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