🛡️ CVE-2018-9057 — terraform-provider-aws

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-332 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses an insecure PRNG

aws/resource_aws_iam_user_login_profile.go in the HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider through v1.12.0 has an inappropriate PRNG algorithm and seeding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by leveraging an IAM account that was provisioned with a weak password.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2018-9057 is recorded against 1 package.

  • github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
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github.com (Package)
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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-332
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws — —

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