April 19, 2023, 10:15 p.m. |

National Vulnerability Database web.nvd.nist.gov

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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