USN-6042-1: Cloud-init vulnerability

24157

22 May 2023

22 May 2023

CLOSED

LOW

CVE-2023-1786

Severity

unknown

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

James Glovich discovered that sensitive data could be exposed in logs. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6042-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: cloud-init - 23.1.2-0ubuntu0~18.04.1 No subscription required

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is unknown unless otherwise noted.

  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.24
    • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.14
    • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.11
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.57
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.8+LTS-T

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.24
    • 2.8.14
    • 2.9.11
    • 2.10.57
    • 3.0.8+LTS-T

References

History

2023-05-22: Initial vulnerability report published.