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CVE-2017-9450

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.

Published

2017-10-30T14:29:00.953

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-269

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	amazon	amazon_web_services_cloudformation_bootstrap	< 1.4-19.10	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)