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Advisory record · GHSA-j8x2-2m5w-j939

Amazon CloudWatch Agent for Windows has Privilege Escalation Vector in github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0052 · 44th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 21 Aug 2024, 16:03 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agentGo<1.247355.01.247355.0
Identifiers
GHSA-j8x2-2m5w-j939 · CVE-2022-23511 · GO-2022-1160
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-274
Tags
Published
21 Aug 2024
Updated
3 Mar 2026

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0052, the 44th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

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