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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2022-23511 json

Amazon CloudWatch Agent for Windows has Privilege Escalation Vector

published 2022-12-12 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-j8x2-2m5w-j939 , GO-2022-1160 , EUVD-2022-7662

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A privilege escalation issue exists within the Amazon CloudWatch Agent for Windows, software for collecting metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers, in versions up to and including v1.247354. When users trigger a repair of the Agent, a pop-up window opens with SYSTEM permissions. Users with administrative access to affected hosts may use this to create a new command prompt as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. To trigger this issue, the third party must be able to access the affected host and elevate their privileges such that they're able to trigger the agent repair process. They must also be able to install the tools required to trigger the issue. This issue does not affect the CloudWatch Agent for macOS or Linux. Agent users should upgrade to version 1.247355 of the CloudWatch Agent to address this issue. There is no recommended work around. Affected users must update the installed version of the CloudWatch Agent to address this issue.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent 1.247355.0
  • amazon cloudwatch_agent 1.247355

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
<1.247355.0
1.247355.0

Affected products

  • aws amazon-cloudwatch-agent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

References

Sources

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