CVE-2012-6639

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
cloud-init	cloud-init	before 0.7.0

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639Third Party Advisory
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/referencesThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639Third Party Advisory
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/referencesThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Nov 25, 2019
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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