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CVE-2017-9450
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-10-30T14:29:00.953 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:28:07.760

Summary

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.

Affected products

amazon — amazon_web_services_cloudformation_bootstrap

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References

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