CVE-2012-6639
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · Improper privilege management
8.8CVSS HIGH
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639Advisory
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/referencesAdvisory