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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-6639

CVE-2012-6639

Description

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

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Affected products

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cloud-init/cloud-initcpe-rescue
Range: before 0.7.0

Patches

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References

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access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6639nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/06/7nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6639nvdThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/66019/referencesnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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