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Amazon EC2 SSM Agent Flaw Patched After Privilege Escalation via Path Traversal
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Amazon EC2 SSM Agent Flaw Patched After Privilege Escalation via Path Traversal

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Andy Stern
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in the Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager (SSM) Agent that, if successfully exploited, could permit an attacker to achieve privilege escalation and code execution.The vulnerability could permit an attacker to create directories in unintended locations on the filesystem, execute arbitrary scripts with root privileges,

First seen on thehackernews.com

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