CVE-2018-15869

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15869 describes a vulnerability in HashiCorp Packer where AWS developers, by omitting the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, risk unintentionally loading malicious Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) from the public catalog. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) has a low attack complexity and can lead to a loss of integrity, as it allows for the loading of untrusted software. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:packer::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.80%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

76.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-15869Moderate

awscli: Allows loading of an undesired AMI by setting similar image properties

Aug 14, 2018

References

github.com / hashicorp/packer/issues/6584

Third Party Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/105172

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry