Amazon Web Services CloudFormation bootstrap arbitrary code execution vulnerability

The Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation bootstrap tools package also known as aws-cfn-bootstrap is a suite of cloud computing services from Amazon.com, Inc.The CloudFormation bootstrap tools package is one of the cloud resource configuration toolkits. A security vulnerability exists in the...

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...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: A vulnerability was reported in the CloudFormation bootstrap tools that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code as root if they have local access to the system and are able to create files in a specific directory CVE-2017-9450 Affected Packages: aws-cfn-bootstrap Issue...