Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Amazon AWS SSM Agent
CVE-2022-29527

7HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor: Amazon
Status: Amazon Ssm Agent
Vendor: CVE Published:; 20 April 2022

What is CVE-2022-29527?

The Amazon AWS SSM Agent before version 3.1.1208.0 has a vulnerability that creates a world-writable sudoers file. This misconfiguration allows local attackers to inject malicious Sudo rules, potentially leading to unauthorized privilege escalation to root level. The issue arises from specific conditions associated with a race condition, making it critical for users to apply the latest security updates to mitigate risks.

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