CVE-2017-9450

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.htmlVendor Advisory
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99972Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-861.htmlVendor Advisory
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt

Timeline

Published: Oct 30, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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