FKIE_CVE-2024-11584

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-26 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:58
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
cloud-init through 25.1.2 includes the systemd socket unit cloud-init-hotplugd.socket with default SocketMode that grants 0666 permissions, making it world-writable. This is used for the "/run/cloud-init/hook-hotplug-cmd" FIFO. An unprivileged user could trigger hotplug-hook commands.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/6265/commits/6e10240a7f0a2d6110b398640b3fd46cfa9a7cf3Patch
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/releases/tag/25.1.3Release Notes
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
canonical cloud-init *
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