RLSA-2021:3081

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / RLSA-2021:3081

    RLSA-2021:3081

    Published: 10 Aug 2021Last Modified: 5 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-3429

    Summary: Moderate: cloud-init security update

    Details: 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.

    References: https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:3081, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940967

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cloud-init

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/cloud-init?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-x86-64-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:20.3-10.el8_4.5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    RLSA-2021:3081 | CVE-DB