CVE-2024-6174

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 0.2%CWE-287

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 8.8EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 Jun 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

When a non-x86 platform is detected, cloud-init grants root access to a hardcoded url with a local IP address. To prevent this, cloud-init default configurations disable platform enumeration.

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

Affected products

Canonical · cloud-init

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References

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/releases/tag/25.1.3