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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 Oct 30, 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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 30, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jun 6, 2017
Link CVE-2017-9450
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-9450
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-9450