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CVE-2012-6639

Date: November 25, 2019

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

Language: Python

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (9)

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-6639

Url: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-6639

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6639

Url: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/references

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6639

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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