Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 19, 2023· Updated Feb 5, 2025
sensitive data exposure in cloud-init logs
CVE-2021-3429
Description
When instructing cloud-init to set a random password for a new user account, versions before 21.2 would write that password to the world-readable log file /var/log/cloud-init-output.log. This could allow a local user to log in as another user.
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Affected products
11- Range: <21.2
- osv-coords9 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/cloud-init&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/cloud-init&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/cloud-init&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/cloud-init&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2012pkg:rpm/suse/cloud-init&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/cloud-init&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cloud-init&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cloud-init&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/cloud-init&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2015%20SP5
< 23.1-150100.8.66.1+ 8 more
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20.2-37.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- (no CPE)range: < 23.1-150100.8.66.1
- Canonical Ltd./cloud-initv5Range: 0
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