RHSA-2021:3081: Red Hat Security Advisory: cloud-init security update

An update for cloud-init is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.The cloud-init packages provide a set of init scripts for cloud instances. Cloud instances need special scripts to run during initialization to retrieve and install SSH keys, and to let the user run various scripts. Security Fix(es):

• cloud-init: randomly generated passwords logged in clear-text to world-readable file (CVE-2021-3429) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2021-3429: cloud-init: randomly generated passwords logged in clear-text to world-readable file