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High ALAS2023-2025-1082 1 CVE

Important: cloud-init security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jul 3, 2025 · Updated Jul 10, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-6174: 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.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cloud-init 0:22.2.2-1.amzn2023.1.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 cloud-init-cfg-ec2 0:22.2.2-1.amzn2023.1.14
Amazon Linux · 2023 cloud-init-cfg-onprem 0:22.2.2-1.amzn2023.1.14

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-6174.html