Vulnerability CVE-2023-1786
Published: 2023-04-26   Modified: 2023-04-27

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://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/2013967
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6042-1
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/a378b7e4f47375458651c0972e7cd813f6fe0a6b
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