What is CVE-2017-9450?

CVE-2017-9450 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Web Services Cloudformation Bootstrap, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-10-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-9450?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Amazon Web Services Cloudformation Bootstrap

CVE-2017-9450

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Amazon Amazon_web_services_cloudformation_bootstrap
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9450?: CVE-2017-9450 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Web Services Cloudformation Bootstrap, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-10-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-9450?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.