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CVE-2018-15869

N/A

Published: August 25, 2018 at 12:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:43 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorPacker

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Packer · Hashicorp

95%

v < 1.3.0

Affected range stops below 1.3.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105172

x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/6584

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-732

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