Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2017-866: Security patch for aws-cfn-bootstrap
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
08/03/2017
07/25/2018
08/04/2017
07/17/2021
Description
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
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-aws-cfn-bootstrap
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