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Zenity researchers find AWS AI agents vulnerable to account-wide takeover

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Researchers at Zenity Labs have discovered a critical vulnerability in Amazon Web Services' Bedrock AgentCore. A single, publicly accessible AI agent was found to be capable of compromising all other AgentCore agents within the same AWS account and region. This exploit leveraged an unrestricted internal AWS interface for temporary cloud credentials. Amazon has since addressed the vulnerability by patching the issue and enhancing the default permissions for these agents. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential security risks in AI agent integrations and the need for robust credential management.

RANK_REASON Security vulnerability discovered in a specific AI product integration.

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Zenity researchers find AWS AI agents vulnerable to account-wide takeover

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Jonathan Kemper ·

    A single prompt was enough to hijack every AI agent in an AWS account, Zenity researchers found

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