Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-10600

Title: Canonical Ubuntu-Image

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-10600.

CWE Category CWE-384

Published Date Jul 11, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-10600: 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.

Impacted Vendors

canonical 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns