CVE-2017-9450

The CVE-2017-9450 issue affects the AWS CloudFormation bootstrap tools package (aws-cfn-bootstrap) prior to 1.4-19.10. The vulnerable component is the cfn-hup daemon, which an attacker with local access can abuse by writing a crafted file to escalate to root and execute arbitrary code, compromisi...

How to Protect AWS ECS with SecureSphere WAF

Adoption of container technology is growing widely. More and more workloads are being transferred from traditional EC2 compute instances to container-based services. However, the need for securing the web traffic remains the same regardless of the elected platform. In this post, we’ll deep dive...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: The default umask value is set to 022 to address a privilege escalation security vulnerability. Affected Packages: aws-cfn-bootstrap Issue Correction: Run yum update aws-cfn-bootstrap or yum update --advisory ALAS-2017-895 to update your system. 1. Run yum update aws-cfn-bootstrap...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: New optional parameter "umask" introduced into cfn-hup.conf file in order to configure the cfn-hup daemon's umask. 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...

How to Protect AWS API Gateway with SecureSphere WAF

Serverless architectures are becoming more and more popular, and Amazon’s API Gateway service is a key factor in many serverless deployments on AWS. Currently API Gateway only supports a public CloudFront endpoint, and securing the API Gateway with high-end WAF protection may seem like a difficul...

Amazon Linux AMI : aws-cfn-bootstrap (ALAS-2017-866)

A vulnerability was reported in the CloudFormation bootstrap tools, where default behavior in the handling of cfn-init metadata can provide escalated privileges to an attacker with local access to the system C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: A vulnerability was reported in the CloudFormation bootstrap tools, different from the one in CVE-2017-9450, where default behavior in the handling of cfn-init metadata can provide escalated privileges to an attacker with local access to the system Affected Packages:...

Amazon Linux AMI : aws-cfn-bootstrap (ALAS-2017-861)

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 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openstack-heat-2015.1.2-2.fc23

Heat provides AWS CloudFormation and CloudWatch functionality for OpenStack...

OpenStack Heat CFN策略安全绕过漏洞

Bugtraq ID:64243 CVE ID:CVE-2013-6426 OpenStack Heat类似于亚马逊的CloudFormation,它可以基于政策对可能发生的情况定义一个模板。 OpenStack Heat默认API策略实施存在安全漏洞，通过调用CreateStack或UpdateStack方法，in-instance用户可创建或者更新与默认策略相冲突的栈。使用Heat's cloudformation-compatible API的设置受此漏洞影响。 0 OpenStack Heat 2013.x 厂商补丁： OpenStack -----...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6426

The cloudformation-compatible API in OpenStack Orchestration API Heat before Havana 2013.2.1 and Icehouse before icehouse-2 does not properly enforce policy rules, which allows local in-instance users to bypass intended access restrictions and 1 create a stack via the CreateStack method or 2 upda...