CVE-2012-6639 (GCVE-0-2012-6639)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-25 17:29 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:36
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Summary
An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data.
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CWE
  • insecure transmission of EC2 instance data can lead to root privilege escalation
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cloud-init cloud-init Affected: before 0.7.0
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