Amazon Q Flaw Enabled Cloud Credential Theft via Malicious Repositories
AWS has patched the vulnerability and published its own advisory to inform customers about the potential impact. The post Amazon Q Flaw Enabled Cloud Credential Theft via Malicious Repositories appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Technical Summary
Researchers at Wiz disclosed a vulnerability in the Amazon Q Developer extension and related plugins that caused automatic execution of configuration files embedded in a workspace without user consent. This allowed malicious repositories to run attacker-controlled commands silently, capturing cloud credentials and API keys loaded in the developer's environment. The vulnerability affects multiple IDE plugins including VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio, as well as the language server. AWS was notified on April 20, 2026, and patched the issue by May 12, 2026, releasing version 1.65.0 of the language server. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-12957, with a related symbolic link handling issue CVE-2026-12958 also fixed. AWS language server updates automatically unless network configurations block it, minimizing required user action. Similar issues have been noted in other AI coding tools.
Potential Impact
Attackers could exploit this vulnerability by tricking developers into opening malicious code repositories, which would then execute commands automatically to steal active cloud credentials and API keys. This could lead to unauthorized access to cloud infrastructure and services associated with the compromised credentials. The attack could occur silently without user warning, affecting both local development environments and cloud resources. The vulnerability impacts developers authenticated to AWS or other cloud services using the Amazon Q Developer extension or related plugins.
Mitigation Recommendations
AWS has released official patches for this vulnerability across all affected Amazon Q Developer plugins and the language server (version 1.65.0). The language server updates automatically unless blocked by network configurations, so most users require no action beyond reloading their IDE to trigger the update. If auto-updates are blocked, users should manually upgrade to the latest version of the Amazon Q Developer plugin for their IDE. New users receive the patched version by default. No additional mitigation steps are required beyond applying these updates.
Amazon Q Flaw Enabled Cloud Credential Theft via Malicious Repositories
Description
AWS has patched the vulnerability and published its own advisory to inform customers about the potential impact. The post Amazon Q Flaw Enabled Cloud Credential Theft via Malicious Repositories appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Technical Analysis
Researchers at Wiz disclosed a vulnerability in the Amazon Q Developer extension and related plugins that caused automatic execution of configuration files embedded in a workspace without user consent. This allowed malicious repositories to run attacker-controlled commands silently, capturing cloud credentials and API keys loaded in the developer's environment. The vulnerability affects multiple IDE plugins including VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio, as well as the language server. AWS was notified on April 20, 2026, and patched the issue by May 12, 2026, releasing version 1.65.0 of the language server. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-12957, with a related symbolic link handling issue CVE-2026-12958 also fixed. AWS language server updates automatically unless network configurations block it, minimizing required user action. Similar issues have been noted in other AI coding tools.
Potential Impact
Attackers could exploit this vulnerability by tricking developers into opening malicious code repositories, which would then execute commands automatically to steal active cloud credentials and API keys. This could lead to unauthorized access to cloud infrastructure and services associated with the compromised credentials. The attack could occur silently without user warning, affecting both local development environments and cloud resources. The vulnerability impacts developers authenticated to AWS or other cloud services using the Amazon Q Developer extension or related plugins.
Mitigation Recommendations
AWS has released official patches for this vulnerability across all affected Amazon Q Developer plugins and the language server (version 1.65.0). The language server updates automatically unless blocked by network configurations, so most users require no action beyond reloading their IDE to trigger the update. If auto-updates are blocked, users should manually upgrade to the latest version of the Amazon Q Developer plugin for their IDE. New users receive the patched version by default. No additional mitigation steps are required beyond applying these updates.
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Threat ID: 6a3e9c8e6e08203f7dae9efd
Added to database: 06/26/2026, 15:36:46 UTC
Last enriched: 06/26/2026, 15:36:53 UTC
Last updated: 06/26/2026, 17:42:31 UTC
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