Bug 1623095 – CVE-2018-15869 awscli: Allows loading of an undesired AMI by setting similar image properties

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Bug 1623095 - (CVE-2018-15869) CVE-2018-15869 awscli: Allows loading of an undesired AMI by setting similar image properties

Summary:	CVE-2018-15869 awscli: Allows loading of an undesired AMI by setting similar ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-15869

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1623096 1623097
Blocks:	1623098
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Reported:	2018-08-28 09:06 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-10-05 05:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-08-28 09:06:35 EDT

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) CLI version 1.15.85 (and possibly earlier versions) does not require the --owners flag when describing images, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trigger the loading of an undesired AMI by setting similar image properties (i.e., name), as exploited in the wild during August 2018 with a Monero miner AMI instead of the expected Ubuntu AMI.

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

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-08-28 09:06:59 EDT

Created awscli tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1623096]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2018-08-28 09:07:11 EDT

Created awscli tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1623096]

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2018-10-05 05:25:05 EDT

Closing this bug as NOTABUG and asked MITRE for rejection, since the issue does not seem to be in AWS CLI but in Packer.

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