Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2016-763: Security patch for cloud-init
Description
It was discovered that cloud-init in the Amazon Linux AMI wrote IAM role credentials from the instance metadata service to files readable by the root user in /var/lib/cloud. An application with root privileges, a container with access to the relevant files, or a root user of an AMI derived from a previously launched AMI could read and use the credentials. (IAM role credentials expire after 6 hours.)
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-cloud-init
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