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. This occurs in certain situations involving a race condition.

CVSS v3.0 7.0 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM

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CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0	Patch Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556	Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7	Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:amazon:amazon_ssm_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2022-04-20 03:15

Updated : 2022-05-03 12:52

NVD link : CVE-2022-29527

Mitre link : CVE-2022-29527

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Products Affected

amazon

amazon_ssm_agent

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