CVE-2017-9450

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 30, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jun 6, 2017

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html
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