CVE-2012-6639

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2014-01-07
CWE:
CWE-290
Bugzilla:
1073591: CVE-2012-6639 cloud-init: insecure transmission of EC2 instance data can lead to root privilege escalation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6639 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of cloud-init as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 7.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 cloud-init Not affected

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