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.
References
Link | Resource |
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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 |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-10-30T14:00:00
Updated: 2017-12-04T07:57:01
Reserved: 2017-06-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-9450
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-10-30T14:29:00.953
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-9450
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE