CVE-2023-1786

medium

Description

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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6042-1

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ATBJSXPL2IOAD2LDQRKWPLIC7QXS44GZ/

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/a378b7e4f47375458651c0972e7cd813f6fe0a6b

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/2013967

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-04-26

Updated: 2023-05-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N