CVE-2024-6174

Publication date 26 June 2025

Last updated 1 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cloud-init	25.04 plucky	Fixed 25.1.4-0ubuntu0~25.04.1
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 25.1.4-0ubuntu0~24.04.1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 25.1.4-0ubuntu0~22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 24.4.1-0ubuntu0~20.04.3+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 23.1.2-0ubuntu0~18.04.1+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 21.1-19-gbad84ad4-0ubuntu1~16.04.4+esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7677-1
cloud-init vulnerabilities
28 July 2025