CVE-2018-15869 (GCVE-0-2018-15869)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-25 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:10
VLAI
Summary
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the uncurated public community AMI catalog.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-24 00:00
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