CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6639
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data.
Affected configurations
• canonical cloud-init (< 0.7.0)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/references Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/references Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry