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From: jmaloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:55:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] utils: use SystemRandom when generating random password.
 (#204)

Message-id: <20200313185518.18544-2-jmaloy@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 94296
O-Subject: [RHEL-7.9 cloud-init PATCH 1/1] utils: use SystemRandom when generating random password. (#204)
Bugzilla: 1812173
RH-Acked-by: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Eduardo Otubo <eterrell@redhat.com>

From: Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>

As noticed by Seth Arnold, non-deterministic SystemRandom should be
used when creating security sensitive random strings.

(cherry picked from commit 3e2f7356effc9e9cccc5ae945846279804eedc46)
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
---
 cloudinit/util.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cloudinit/util.py b/cloudinit/util.py
index 9d9d5c7..5d51ba8 100644
--- a/cloudinit/util.py
+++ b/cloudinit/util.py
@@ -401,9 +401,10 @@ def translate_bool(val, addons=None):
 
 
 def rand_str(strlen=32, select_from=None):
+    r = random.SystemRandom()
     if not select_from:
         select_from = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
-    return "".join([random.choice(select_from) for _x in range(0, strlen)])
+    return "".join([r.choice(select_from) for _x in range(0, strlen)])
 
 
 def rand_dict_key(dictionary, postfix=None):
-- 
1.8.3.1