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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556
Scores
CVSS v3
7.0
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
35.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-362
CWE-732
Status
published
Products (1)
amazon/amazon_ssm_agent
< 3.1.1208.0
Published
Apr 20, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026