CVE-2018-15869

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 Medium 5.3
Description
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the uncurated public community AMI catalog.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-15869
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-08-25T00:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-03T00:03:26
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-732 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:packer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.3.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.3
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 1.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/6584 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105172 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15869
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15869
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:33:32 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 11:27:47 2018-08-25T00:29Z 2018-08-25T00:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 11:27:47 2019-10-03T00:03:26 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 11:27:47 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated