CVE-2017-9450

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    CVE-2017-9450

    Published: 30 Oct 2017Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: , http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972, https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.html, https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High