High severity · published Nov 25, 2019
CVE-2012-6639
An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data
8.8
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CL
Cloud-init · Canonical
before 0.7.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
LE
Linux Enterprise Server · Suse
11; 11 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6639
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6639
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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