CVE-2024-6174

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6174
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-6174.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-6174
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-26T09:15:25.462Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:35.022817879Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/6xxx/CVE-2024-6174.json",
    "cna_assigner": "canonical"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/canonical/cloud-init

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init
Events
Introduced
7fb6f78177b5ece10ca7c54ba3958010a9987f06
Fixed
79ac5c8311efb8b89bca129cc8a0098ca5ef679d
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:canonical:cloud-init:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.7.9"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "25.1.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.7.9
17.*
17.1
17.2
18.*
18.1
18.2
18.3
18.4
18.5
19.*
19.1
19.2
19.3
19.4
20.*
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
21.*
21.1
21.2
21.3
21.4
22.*
22.1
22.2
22.3
22.4
23.*
23.1
23.2
23.3
23.4
24.*
24.2
24.3
24.4
25.*
25.1
25.1.1
25.1.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-6174.json"