UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10600

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10600

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10600.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10600

Upstream

CVE-2017-10600

Published

2017-07-11T17:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:46:23Z

Severity

5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - high

Summary

[none]

Details

ubuntu-image 1.0 before 2017-07-07, when invoked as non-root, creates files in the resulting image with the uid of the invoking user. When the resulting image is booted, a local attacker with the same uid as the image creator has unintended access to cloud-init and snapd directories.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / ubuntu-image

Package

Name: ubuntu-image
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ubuntu-image@1.11+16.04ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.9+16.04ubuntu1

0.11+16.04ubuntu1

0.12+16.04ubuntu1

0.14+16.04ubuntu2

0.15+16.04ubuntu1

1.*

1.0+16.04ubuntu1

1.1+16.04ubuntu4

1.3+16.04ubuntu2

1.4+16.04ubuntu2

1.5+16.04ubuntu1

1.6+16.04ubuntu1

1.7+16.04ubuntu1

1.8+16.04ubuntu1

1.9+16.04ubuntu1

1.10+16.04ubuntu1

1.11+16.04ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-ubuntu-image",
            "binary_version": "1.11+16.04ubuntu1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ubuntu-image",
            "binary_version": "1.11+16.04ubuntu1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10600.json"