Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-15869
CVE-2018-15869
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.
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Affected products
12- osv-coords12 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/aws-cli&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/aws-cli&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/aws-cli&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2012pkg:rpm/suse/aws-cli&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Public%20Cloud%2015pkg:rpm/suse/aws-cli&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/aws-cli&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/python-boto3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/python-boto3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015pkg:rpm/suse/python-botocore&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/python-botocore&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015pkg:rpm/suse/python-s3transfer&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/python-s3transfer&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015
< 1.20.7-2.2+ 11 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.20.7-2.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.297-22.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.297-22.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.61-4.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.297-22.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.16.297-22.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.9.57-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.9.57-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.12.57-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.12.57-3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.1.13-3.3.6
- (no CPE)range: < 0.1.13-3.3.6
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- www.securityfocus.com/bid/105172nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/6584nvdThird Party Advisory
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