A Patch Has Been Deployed for the Amazon EC2 SSM Agent Vulnerability That Allows Privilege Escalation through Path Traversal
Details of a security vulnerability in the Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager (SSM) Agent have been revealed by cybersecurity experts. The flaw, which has now been fixed, could potentially allow an intruder to escalate privileges and execute code.
Exploiting the vulnerability could enable an unauthorized individual to generate folders in unconventional filesystem locations and run scripts with root permissions.
Exploiting the vulnerability could enable an unauthorized individual to generate folders in unconventional filesystem locations and run scripts with root permissions.
