CVE-2012-6639

moderate-risk
Published 2019-11-25

An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data.

Do I need to act?

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1.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Cloud-Init

Affected Vendors

Debian Suse Canonical

References (12)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7
Patch https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639
Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639
Third Party Advisory https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/references
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7
Patch https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639
Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639
Third Party Advisory https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/references
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 13/34 · Low