Mount failure or misdirection via port-selection race
Published Dec 28, 2022 · Updated Apr 11, 2025
Race condition in Amazon EFS Utilities 1.34.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to fail or misdirect TLS mounts. The mount helper releases its temporary port reservation before stunnel binds, so parallel mount processes can select the same local port without consulting shared state. Exploitation requires concurrent TLS-enabled mounts and can cause a mount failure or map a local mount point to the wrong EFS file system.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Amazon EFS Utilities 1.34.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to fail or misdirect TLS mounts. The mount helper releases its temporary port reservation before stunnel binds, so parallel mount processes can select the same local port without consulting shared state. Exploitation requires concurrent TLS-enabled mounts and can cause a mount failure or map a local mount point to the wrong EFS file system.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-46174
- Published
- Dec 28, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 11, 2025
- Vendor
- Amazon Web Services
- Product
- Amazon EFS Utilities
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 28, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< v1.34.4
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