DagSonsteboSB opened a new issue #3202: Userdata incorrectly encoded URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/3202 ##### ISSUE TYPE * Bug Report ##### COMPONENT NAME * Userdata input in CloudStack 4.11 ##### CLOUDSTACK VERSION * ACS 4.11.2 ##### CONFIGURATION * N/A ##### OS / ENVIRONMENT * Tested on CentOS7 but is version agnostic. ##### SUMMARY * Userdata is incorrectly URLencoded *before* base64 encoding ##### STEPS TO REPRODUCE * Create new VM and pass the following userdata string: cat ${hostname}-local >>/etc/hostname * Check the string passed through API call and landing in database: > SELECT * FROM cloud.user_vm where id=8 | id | iso_id | display_name | user_data | update_parameters | | 8 | | d1ct | Y2F0ICR7aG9zdG5hbWV9LWxvY2FsICZndDsmZ3Q7L2V0Yy9ob3N0bmFtZQ== | 1 | * Decode this string and note greater than symbols converted to >: # echo Y2F0ICR7aG9zdG5hbWV9LWxvY2FsICZndDsmZ3Q7L2V0Yy9ob3N0bmFtZQ== | base64 -d cat ${hostname}-local >>/etc/hostname * For completeness sake also do a curl from the guest VM and confirm the same wrongly converted string is passed back from the VR ##### EXPECTED RESULTS * Expected output to be same as input: cat ${hostname}-local >>/etc/hostname ##### ACTUAL RESULTS * Actual output was URLencoded: cat ${hostname}-local >>/etc/hostname ~~~
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