7.0
HIGH
CVE-2022-29527
Amazon AWS Amazon SSM Agent Sudo Escalation of Privileges Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

April 20, 2022, 10:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 8, 2023, 2:22 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.0
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2022-29527 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-29527 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Amazon amazon_ssm_agent
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2022-29527.

URL Resource
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0 Patch Release Notes Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 3 months, 4 weeks ago
236 stars 15 fork 15 watcher
Born at : May 26, 2022, 5:29 p.m. This repo has been linked 9 different CVEs too.

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-29527 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 03, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7 No Types Assigned https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0 No Types Assigned https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST NVD-CWE-noinfo
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:amazon:amazon_ssm_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.1.1208.0
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.04 }} 0.00%

score

0.05635

percentile

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