CVE-2012-6639

Summary

CVECVE-2012-6639
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-25 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-18 15:05:00 UTC
DescriptionAn privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Canonical Cloud-init All All All All
Application Canonical Cloud-init All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2012-6639 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Bug 867302 – VUL-0: CVE-2012-6639: cloud-init: might access random "instance-data.local.domain" host MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE request: cloud-init DNS resolution fix MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Cloud-init CVE-2012-6639 Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability MISC www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
1073591 – (CVE-2012-6639) CVE-2012-6639 cloud-init: insecure transmission of EC2 instance data can lead to root privilege escalation MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2012-6639 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Cloud-init CVE-2012-6639 Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability MITRE www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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