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.
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87pw-p9qx-p46w
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2022-04-20
Updated: 2024-11-21
Base Score: 6.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.00054