CVE-2022-29527 (GCVE-0-2022-29527)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-20 09:09 – Updated: 2024-08-03 06:26
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.0 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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