Red Hat Enterprise Linux (cloud-init): Schwachstelle ermöglicht Erlangen von Administratorrechten
WID-SEC-2025-1539 · first 14.07.2025 · updated 19.05.2026 · CVSS 8,8
What it is about
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ist eine populäre Linux-Distribution. Ein Angreifer aus einem angrenzenden Netzwerk kann eine Schwachstelle in der cloud-init Komponente von Red Hat Enterprise Linux ausnutzen, um Administratorrechte zu erlangen.
Under what conditions?
The BSI does not name any particular preconditions. Exploitable remotely according to the BSI.
What can happen in the worst case
An attacker could use the vulnerability to
- Administratorrechte zu erlangen
Am I affected?
Affected according to the BSI:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Fedora Linux
- Ubuntu Linux
- SUSE Linux
- Oracle Linux
- SUSE openSUSE
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux <10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux <9
The installed version is usually shown under “Help → About” or in the device’s admin interface.
What helps?
Update to at least:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Is the vulnerability already being exploited?
None of the CVEs is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities. That does not mean there are no attacks, only that none are documented.
Information and sources
- Original BSI advisory (WID)
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10844 vom 2025-07-13 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10848 vom 2025-07-13 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory CVE-2024-6174 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10879 vom 2025-07-14 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10876 vom 2025-07-14 access.redhat.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-10844 vom 2025-07-15 linux.oracle.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11295 vom 2025-07-16 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11339 vom 2025-07-17 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11337 vom 2025-07-17 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:11324 vom 2025-07-17 access.redhat.com
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-10848 vom 2025-07-17 linux.oracle.com
- Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2025-B93EE7B368 vom 2025-07-21 bodhi.fedoraproject.org
- Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2025-58F05C43AE vom 2025-07-21 bodhi.fedoraproject.org
- Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2025-11324 vom 2025-07-22 linux.oracle.com
- openSUSE Security Update OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15376-1 vom 2025-07-25 lists.opensuse.org
- Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7677-1 vom 2025-07-29 ubuntu.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2025:20656-1 vom 2025-09-10 lists.suse.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2025:20755-1 vom 2025-09-26 lists.suse.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2026:1980-1 vom 2026-05-18 lists.suse.com
CVE: CVE-2024-6174
Source: BSI warning and information service (CERT-Bund); CISA. The assessment of the conditions is my reading of the BSI text; the external pages are in their original language.