CVE-2017-10600

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-384

Description

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu-Image: 1.0-2017-07-06

References

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/ownership-bug-in-ubuntu-image/1285
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/ownership-bug-in-ubuntu-image/1285

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