CVE-2022-29527: Amazon Ssm Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Amazon Amazon Ssm Agent: before 3.1.1208.0 (fixed in 3.1.1208.0)

Published 2022-04-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.