CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-6174

8.8 HIGH Published 2025-06-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-06-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

When a non-x86 platform is detected, cloud-init grants root access to a hardcoded url with a local IP address. To prevent this, cloud-init default configurations disable platform enumeration.

Affected configurations

• canonical cloud-init (< 25.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References