Amazon AI Agent Authorization Vulnerability

A newly discovered vulnerability in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore allows unauthorized access to sensitive data when AI agents interact with user-authorized context.

Bottom line: Security teams must immediately assess and remediate their AI agent deployments to prevent unauthorized data access.

What's happening: A recently disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2023-3456, CVSS score: 8.5) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore allows an attacker to inject malicious user-authorization context, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive data in DynamoDB tables and internal knowledge bases.

What to do: Security leaders should review and update their AI agent configurations to ensure that user authorization context is properly propagated and validated, and establish a process for regular vulnerability scanning and remediation.

Source: AWS Security Blog