CVE-2024-11584 (GCVE-0-2024-11584)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-26 09:25
Modified
2025-06-26 19:14
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
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-writable. This is used for the "/run/cloud-init/hook-hotplug-cmd" FIFO. An unprivileged user could trigger hotplug-hook commands.
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Impacted products
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Canonical cloud-init Version: 21.3   ≤
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