GCVE-110-CLOUD-2018-0002

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published August 13, 2018

Attackers had put malicious AMIs in the marketplace to abuse the CLI''s way of selecting what AMI to use. Although the concept of planting malicious AMIs had existed for a while (ex. in the 2009 presentation "Clobbering the clouds" by Nicholas Arvanitis, Marco Slaviero, and Haroon Meer) it had not been used specifically to target this issue with the CLI.

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
AWS	EC2	—	—

Aliases

CVE-2018-15869

References

Launching EC2s did not require specifying AMI owner

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