CVE catalog

CVE-2012-6639

cloud-init: CVE-2012-6639

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
2.05% · Oct 25, 2026

An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debiancloud-initsid26.2-1fixed
Debiancloud-initforky26.2-1fixed
Debiancloud-inittrixie25.1.4-1+deb13u1fixed
Debiancloud-initbookworm22.4.2-1+deb12u4fixed

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debiancloud-initsourcesid0.7.1-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debiancloud-initsourceforky0.7.1-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debiancloud-initsourcetrixie0.7.1-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported
Debiancloud-initsourcebookworm0.7.1-1not yet assignedNot reportedNot reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [cloud-init]Fixed
    Details (2)
    • 22.4.2-1+deb12u4 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.1-1

      dsa · cloud-init · debian · bookworm; dsa · cloud-init · debian · 12

    • 22.4.2-1+deb12u4 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.1-1

      dsa · cloud-init · debian · bookworm; dsa · cloud-init · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [cloud-init]Fixed
    Details (2)
    • 25.1.4-1+deb13u1 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.1-1

      dsa · cloud-init · debian · 13

    • 25.1.4-1+deb13u1 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.1-1

      dsa · cloud-init · debian · 13

Observed:

References