{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-02-05T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "cloud-init: Too short random password length in cc_set_password in config/cc_set_passwords.py",
    "id" : "1798728",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798728"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "8.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-330",
  "details" : [ "In cloud-init through 19.4, rand_user_password in cloudinit/config/cc_set_passwords.py has a small default pwlen value, which makes it easier for attackers to guess passwords.", "A flaw was found in cloud-init, where it uses short passwords when generating a random password in new instances. Depending on the instance configuration, a remote or local attacker may abuse this vulnerability to guess the password of the victim user." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:3898",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "cloud-init-0:19.4-7.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2020-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4650",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "cloud-init-0:19.4-11.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "cloud-init",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8632\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8632" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-8632",
  "csaw" : false
}