5.9

CVE-2024-11584: canonical cloud-init

CVSS: 5.9v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-11584DEBIAN-CVE-2024-11584
Published 26-06-2025Last modified 26-06-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-11584 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability in canonical cloud-init. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
24/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.9/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.14%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 7
OPENSUSE-RU-2026:20129-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15376-1SUSE-RU-2026:20174-1SUSE-RU-2026:20192-1SUSE-SU-2025:20656-1SUSE-SU-2025:20755-1

Timeline

  1. 26-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-06-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.13% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.14%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Canonical1 product
Debian1 product
  • cloud-init< 22.4.2-1+deb12u3 | < 25.1.4-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • cloud-init< 23.1.2-0ubuntu0~18.04.1+esm1 | < 24.4.1-0ubuntu0~20.04.3+esm1 | < 25.1.4-0ubuntu0~22.04.1 | < 25.1.4-0ubuntu0~24.04.1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

7 links