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CVE-2024-6174

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ltd. cloud-init: before 25.1.3 — fixed in 25.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical Ltd. cloud-init 25.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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