Canonical Cloud-Init
9 CVEs affecting Canonical Cloud-Init. Latest disclosed: 2025-06-26. Critical: 0, High: 3.
| CVE | Severity | Score | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2024-6174 | High | 8.8 | 2025-06-26 | 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 configuratio… |
CVE-2012-6639 | High | 8.8 | 2019-11-25 | An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data. |
CVE-2018-10896 | High | 7.1 | 2018-08-01 | The default cloud-init configuration, in cloud-init 0.6.2 and newer, included "ssh_deletekeys: 0", disabling cloud-init's deletion of ssh host keys. In some en… |
CVE-2024-11584 | Medium | 5.9 | 2025-06-26 | cloud-init through 25.1.2 includes the systemd socket unit cloud-init-hotplugd.socket with default SocketMode that grants 0666 permissions, making it world-wri… |
CVE-2023-1786 | Medium | 5.5 | 2023-04-26 | Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of cloud-init before version 23.1.2. An attacker could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escal… |
CVE-2022-2084 | Medium | 5.5 | 2023-04-19 | Sensitive data could be exposed in world readable logs of cloud-init before version 22.3 when schema failures are reported. This leak could include hashed pass… |
CVE-2021-3429 | Medium | 5.5 | 2023-04-19 | When instructing cloud-init to set a random password for a new user account, versions before 21.2 would write that password to the world-readable log file /var… |
CVE-2020-8632 | Medium | 5.5 | 2020-02-05 | In cloud-init through 19.4, rand_user_password in cloudinit/config/cc_set_passwords.py has a small default pwlen value, which makes it easier for attackers to… |
CVE-2020-8631 | Medium | 5.5 | 2020-02-05 | cloud-init through 19.4 relies on Mersenne Twister for a random password, which makes it easier for attackers to predict passwords, because rand_str in cloudin… |