CVE-2022-29527

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362 CWE-732

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 20, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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