CVE-2012-6639

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductCanonical Cloud-init
PublishedNov 25, 2019
First seenNov 25, 2019

How to fix

Update
  • canonical cloud-init0.7.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
canonical cloud-initv < 0.7.00.7.0
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0, 10.0—
suse linux_enterprise_server11—

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