cve-2023-1786
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-26 22:23
Modified
2025-02-13 16:39
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of cloud-init before version 23.1.2. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/2013967Issue Tracking
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/a378b7e4f47375458651c0972e7cd813f6fe0a6bPatch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATBJSXPL2IOAD2LDQRKWPLIC7QXS44GZ/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6042-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/2013967Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/a378b7e4f47375458651c0972e7cd813f6fe0a6bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATBJSXPL2IOAD2LDQRKWPLIC7QXS44GZ/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6042-1Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical Ltd. cloud-init Version: 0   ≤
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