High severity · published Apr 20, 2022
CVE-2022-29527
Amazon AWS amazon-ssm-agent before 3.1.1208.0 creates a world-writable sudoers file, which allows local attackers to inject Sudo rules and escalate privileges to root
7.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Amazon AWS amazon-ssm-agent before 3.1.1208.0 creates a world-writable sudoers file, which allows local attackers to inject Sudo rules and escalate privileges to root. This occurs in certain situations involving a race condition.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
Amazon Ssm Agent · Amazon
before 3.1.1208.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29527
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29527
Exploit
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556
Patch
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7
Patch
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0
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