Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1620
Advisory Release Date: 2021-03-18 18:06 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-03-19 22:53 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A vulnerability was discovered in cloud-init which can improperly disclose randomly generated passwords as part of the chpasswd module. The fix prevents the generated password from being written to a world-readable log file on the local disk. (CVE-2021-3429)
Affected Packages:
cloud-init
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update cloud-init to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
cloud-init-19.3-43.amzn2.noarch
src:
cloud-init-19.3-43.amzn2.src