CVE-2022-29527

Summary

CVECVE-2022-29527
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-20 10:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-08 14:22:00 UTC
DescriptionAmazon 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362 | CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Amazon Amazon Ssm Agent All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1196556 – VUL-0: amazon-ssm-agent: creates world-writable sudoers file during runtime (race condition) MISC bugzilla.suse.com
Release Amazon SSM Agent - Release 3.1.1208.0 - 2022-04-04 · aws/amazon-ssm-agent · GitHub MISC github.com
Create ssm-agent-users sudoer file with constrained file permission · aws/amazon-ssm-agent@0fe8ae9 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 753381 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for amazon-ssm-agent (SUSE-SU-2022:1510-1)

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