🛡️ CVE-2022-29527 — amazon-ssm-agent

🟠 CVSS 7.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-362 NVD
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-29527 is classified as CWE-362: Race Condition. Concurrent operations share state without proper synchronisation, so timing decides whether the result is correct.

Affected software

CVE-2022-29527 is recorded against 1 package.

  • amazon-ssm-agent (fixed in 3.1.1208.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 April 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-362
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-04-20
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
amazon-ssm-agent 3.1.1208.0

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