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AWS published official AMIs with recoverable deleted files

Published Sat, Jun 4th, 2011
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Summary

Researchers, while investigating the security posture of Public AMIs, were able to undelete files from an official image that was published by Amazon AWS.

Affected Services

N/A

Remediation

Follow [best practices](https://aws.amazon.com/articles/how-to-share-and-use-public-amis-in-a-secure-manner/) when sharing Public AMIs

Tracked CVEs

No tracked CVEs

References

Disclosure Date
Sat, Jun 4th, 2011
Exploitablity Period
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Known ITW Exploitation
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Detection Methods
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Piercing Index Rating
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Discovered by
Marco Balduzzi, Jonas Zaddach, Davide Balzarotti, Engin Kirda, Sergio Loureiro