CVE-2020-15115: Weak Password Requirements

August 6, 2020 (updated January 4, 2021)

etcd does not perform any password length validation, which allows for very short passwords, such as those with a length of one. This may allow an attacker to guess or brute-force users’ passwords with little computational effort.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15115

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