Security advisory

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  "id": "9e5371a44583bfa62cbc13024d9134e1d0e0c517dfc75bfa3cac08962e9f18e0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-29527",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-29527",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-29527",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-29527",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-29527"
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      "affected": [
        {
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              "repo": "https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                  "introduced": "0"
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                {
                  "fixed": "b3a8f2b875b989032909ba128145a4ceb30754fd"
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                  "fixed": "0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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                    "original_tag": "3.1.1208.0"
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          "versions": [
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            "3.1.338.0",
            "3.1.282.0",
            "3.1.192.0",
            "3.1.127.0",
            "3.1.90.0",
            "3.0.1390.0",
            "3.0.1295.0",
            "3.0.1209.0",
            "3.0.1181.0",
            "3.0.1124.0",
            "3.0.1031.0",
            "3.0.882.0",
            "3.0.854.0",
            "3.0.755.0",
            "3.0.732.0",
            "3.0.655.0",
            "3.0.603.0",
            "3.0.529.0",
            "3.0.502.0",
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            "2.3.193.0",
            "2.3.136.0",
            "2.3.117.0",
            "2.3.68.0",
            "2.3.50.0",
            "2.2.800.0",
            "2.2.619.0",
            "2.2.607.0",
            "2.2.546.0",
            "2.2.493.0",
            "2.2.392.0",
            "2.2.355.0",
            "2.2.325.0",
            "2.0.767.0",
            "2.0.805.0",
            "2.0.796.0",
            "2.0.790.0",
            "v2.0.755.0",
            "2.0.755.0",
            "2.0.672.0",
            "v2.0.633.0",
            "2.0.599.0",
            "v1.2.290.0",
            "v1.2.252.0",
            "v1.1.146.0",
            "v1.1.145.0"
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-29527.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:51.123972045Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases/tag/3.1.1208.0",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29527.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29527",
        "https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196556",
        "https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/commit/0fe8ae99b2ff25649c7b86d3bc05fc037400aca7"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29527.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-29527",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 519716,
  "published_at": "2022-04-20T09:09:07+00:00"
}