CVE-2018-15869: Hashicorp Packer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the uncurated public community AMI catalog.

Affected products

• Hashicorp Packer: before 1.3.0 (fixed in 1.3.0)

Published 2018-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.