CVE-2012-6639

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
cloud-initcloud-initbefore 0.7.0affected

Weaknesses

  • insecure transmission of EC2 instance data can lead to root privilege escalation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

References