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medium 5.3

CVE-2018-15869 json

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properl…

published 2018-08-25 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-7726

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • hashicorp packer 1.3.0
  • packer Debian 12 1.3.1+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15869

  • aws-cli SLE Module for Public Cloud 12, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8 +1 more 1.16.297-22.11.1
  • python-s3transfer SLE Module for Package Hub 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 0.1.13-3.3.6
  • aws-cli SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 1.16.61-4.7.1
  • python-boto3 SLE Module for Package Hub 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 1.9.57-3.5.1
  • python-botocore SLE Module for Package Hub 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 1.12.57-3.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:0251-1SUSE-RU-2018:4074-1

  • aws-cli openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.20.7-2.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10644-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-15869 updated cvss 5.3

awscli: Allows loading of an undesired AMI by setting similar image properties

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 awscli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 awscli
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

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