CVE-2018-15869
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.55%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-15869
To remediate CVE-2018-15869, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.3.1+dfsg-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-15869 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.3.1+dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |