CVE-2024-11584

5.3 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (5.3) in canonical cloud-init. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-732
Published: 2025-06-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:cloud-init

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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