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CVE-2017-9450

Published: 30/10/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFormation bootstrap tools package (aka aws-cfn-bootstrap) prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2017-861
A vulnerability was reported in the CloudFormation bootstrap tools that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code as root if they have local access to the system and are able to create files in a specific directory (CVE-2017-9450 ) ...

Exploits

Exploit DB: aws-cfn-bootstrap Local Code Execution
aws-cfn-bootstrap versions prior to 14-2214 suffer from a local code execution vulnerability ...

References

CWE-269https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txthttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html
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