Arbitrary Argument Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package amazon-cloudwatch-agent (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-AMAZONCLOUDWATCHAGENT-15324231
published20 Feb 2026
disclosed28 Jan 2026

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Introduced: 28 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-61731 (opens in a new tab) CWE-88 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Amazon-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Amazon-Linux:2.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream amazon-cloudwatch-agent package and not the amazon-cloudwatch-agent package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "#cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a "--log-file" argument to this directive, causing pkg-config to write to an attacker-controlled location.