Vulnerability CVE-2022-29527
Published: 2022-04-20

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:
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556
https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7
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