USN-7677-1 cloud-init vulnerabilities

Harry Sintonen discovered that the hotplugd socket in cloud-init was world writable. An attacker could possibly use this issue to send hotplug-hook commands. CVE-2024-11584 It was discovered that cloud-init granted root access to a hardcoded URL with a local IP address when a non-x86 platform is...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-11584

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...