Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in ubuntu-image 1.0

CVE-2017-10600 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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