CVE-2024-6174 (GCVE-0-2024-6174)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-26 09:15
Modified
2025-06-26 17:38
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | cloud-init |
Version: 0.7.9 ≤ |
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