CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-9450.md

### [CVE-2017-9450](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9450)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/aws-cfn-bootstrap-local-code-execution-as-root.txt

#### Github
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