CVE-2024-11584

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Jun 26, 2025
Updated: Jun 26, 2025
Reserved: Nov 20, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
cloud-initCanonical	21.3 to before 25.1.3Affected

References

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/6265/commits/6e10240a7f0a2d6110b398640b3fd46cfa9a7cf3
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/releases/tag/25.1.3

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