8.8

CVE-2024-6174: canonical cloud-init Improper Authentication

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesRHSA-2025:10844RHSA-2025:10848RHSA-2025:10876
Published 26-06-2025Last modified 26-06-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-6174 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Improper Authentication vulnerability in canonical cloud-init. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 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

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

17%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.25% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.27%

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
Redhat1 product
  • cloud-init< 0:24.4-3.el10_0.2 | < 0:24.4-4.el9_6.3 | < 0:23.4-7.el9_4.13 | < 0:22.1-10.el9_2.1 | < 0:21.1-19.el9_0.7 | < 0:23.4-7.el8_10.10 | < 0:21.1-15.el8_6.4 | < 0:22.1-8.el8_8.2
Ubuntu1 product
  • cloud-init< 21.1-19-gbad84ad4-0ubuntu1~16.04.4+esm2 | < 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

4 vendors · 4 products

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