CVE-2022-29527

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    CVE-2022-29527

    Published: 20 Apr 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29527.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29527, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556, https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -b3a8f2b875b989032909ba128145a4ceb30754fd

    Affected versions

    3.1.1188.0
    3.1.1141.0
    3.1.1080.0
    3.1.1045.0
    3.1.1004.0
    3.1.941.0
    3.1.821.0
    3.1.804.0
    3.1.715.0
    3.1.634.0
    3.1.630.0
    3.1.501.0
    3.1.459.0
    3.1.426.0
    3.1.338.0
    3.1.282.0
    3.1.192.0
    3.1.127.0
    3.1.90.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High