{"action":"Upgrade cloud-init to 19.4-2 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"19.4-2","introduced":"0"}],"component":"cloud-init","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["19.4-2"],"id":"tcs_01M5NF938CNKG2DCSYEXASD9YF","modified_at":"2026-10-26T12:02:52.019090085Z","published_at":"2020-02-05T14:15:11.607Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8631","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8631"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8631#Debian:13/cloud-init","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8631"}],"summary":"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 functi"}