{"id":"USN-7677-1","summary":"cloud-init vulnerabilities","details":"Harry Sintonen discovered that the hotplugd socket in cloud-init was world\nwritable. An attacker could possibly use this issue to send hotplug-hook\ncommands. (CVE-2024-11584)\n\nIt was discovered that cloud-init granted root access to a hardcoded URL\nwith a local IP address when a non-x86 platform is detected. An attacker\ncould possibly impersonate an OpenStack endpoint and provide root\nconfiguration data. 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