CVE-2017-9450

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-9450
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-10-30T14:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-03T00:03:26
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-269 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:amazon_web_services_cloudformation_bootstrap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.4-19.10
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9450
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9450
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:29:53 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 22:39:18 2017-10-30T14:29Z 2017-10-30T14:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 22:39:18 2019-10-03T00:03:26 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 22:39:18 Modified Vulnerability Status updated