CVE-2012-6639
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
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.
How to fix CVE-2012-6639
To remediate CVE-2012-6639, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/cloud-init—upgrade to 0.7.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2012-6639 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.7.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |