CVE-2018-15869

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductHashicorp Packer
PublishedAug 25, 2018
First seenAug 25, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • hashicorp packer1.3.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
hashicorp packerv < 1.3.01.3.0

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