CVE-2022-29527

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

EPSS

<1%p23

Published

Apr 20, 2022 (Apr 20, 2022)

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.

Vendors: amazon
Products: amazon ssm agent
Weakness: CWE-362, CWE-732
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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