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

CVE-2017-9450

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

Github

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