CVE-2026-79916

9.1 CRITICALpublic exploit available

Published 2026-09-21 · Updated 2026-09-21

AI risk analysis

Summary: Vulnerability allows authenticated users to inject control characters into AWS credentials, enabling command execution as root.
Exploitability: Exploitation requires authentication and knowledge of specific fields; moderate difficulty.
Blast radius: Potential for significant impact including data theft or system compromise if exploited.
Prioritized remediation: Update to version 2.10.5-lts immediately.

rceawsauth-bypassrootcredentials

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.

NVD description

MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.10.5-lts, authenticated workspace members can inject control characters into AWS Bedrock access_key_id and secret_access_key fields that _update_aws_credentials writes to /root/.aws/credentials without safe parsing. An attacker can append a new AWS profile containing credential_process, then select that profile during a later model-validation request so botocore executes an attacker-controlled command as root. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.10.5-lts.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Public exploit & PoC references

All references

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