CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9450
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFormation bootstrap tools package (aka aws-cfn-bootstrap) before 1.4-19.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by leveraging the ability to create files in an unspecified directory.
Affected configurations
• amazon amazon web services cloudformation bootstrap (< 1.4-19.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html Vendor Advisory
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt sintonen.fi
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html Vendor Advisory
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt sintonen.fi