VDB
CVE-2018-15869
CVE-2018-15869
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.55% · 68.5th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.55%
68.5th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS | packer | 0, 1.6.6+ds1-4, 1.6.6+ds1-4ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | packer | *, 0 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | packer | 0, 1.0.4+dfsg-1, 1.0.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | awscli | 2.23.6-1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- 105172 (circl)
- https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/6584 (circl)
Timeline
- Aug 25, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15869 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/6584 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/3629 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15869 third-party-advisory