CVE-2024-11584

CVSS 5.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-732

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.9EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 Jun 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

cloud-init through 25.1.2 includes the systemd socket unit cloud-init-hotplugd.socket with default SocketMode that grants 0666 permissions, making it world-writable. This is used for the "/run/cloud-init/hook-hotplug-cmd" FIFO. An unprivileged user could trigger hotplug-hook commands.

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

Affected products

Canonical · cloud-init

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References

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/6265/commits/6e10240a7f0a2d6110b398640b3fd46cfa9a7cf3 https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/releases/tag/25.1.3