Amazon Linux 2 : amazon-cloudwatch-agent (ALAS-2024-2630)
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The version of amazon-cloudwatch-agent installed on the remote host is prior to 1.300044.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2630 advisory. Azure Identity Libraries and Microsoft Authentication Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-35255) The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. An unsafe decompression vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the collector via excessive memory consumption. OTel Collector version 0.102.1 fixes this issue. It is also fixed in the confighttp module version 0.102.0 and configgrpc module version 0.102.1. (CVE-2024-36129) AWS is aware of CVE-2024-41110, an issue affecting the Moby open source project, packaged in Amazon Linux as docker. Docker is a component of several open source container management systems. This issue does not affect the default configuration of docker. If an authorization plugin is enabled, a specially-crafted API request to the docker daemon will be forwarded to the authorization plugin in a way that could lead to unintended actions, such as privilege escalation. Enabling an authorization plugin is an atypical configuration. The affected API endpoint is not exposed to the network in either the default, typical, or recommended configurations. The default EKS and ECS configurations do not expose the API endpoint to…Read More

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