USN-6042-1
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USN-6042-1
Published: 26 Apr 2023Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026
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Summary: cloud-init vulnerability
Details: James Golovich discovered that sensitive data could be exposed in logs. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6042-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1786, https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/2013967
Affected packages
Package
Name: cloud-init
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cloud-init?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fxenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -21.1-19-gbad84ad4-0ubuntu1~16.04.4
Affected versions
0.7.7~bzr1149-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1154-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1155-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1156-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1156-0ubuntu2
0.7.7~bzr1160-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1176-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1182-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1189-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1192-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1192-0ubuntu2
0.7.7~bzr1200-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1208-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1209-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1212-0ubuntu1
0.7.7~bzr1246-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.7~bzr1256-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.8-1-g3705bb5-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.8-1-g3705bb5-0ubuntu1~16.04.3
0.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
0.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.3
0.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.4
0.7.9-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
0.7.9-48-g1c795b9-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.9-113-g513e99e0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.9-153-g16a7302f-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.9-153-g16a7302f-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
0.7.9-233-ge586fe35-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
0.7.9-233-ge586fe35-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
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
