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Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2025-54136
Trusted MCP Config Swap Enables RCE in Cursor AI Code Editor ≤1.2.4
8.827%
CVE-2025-59536
Code Injection in Anthropic Claude Code Startup Trust Dialog (pre-1.0.111)
8.726%
CVE-2026-12957
Improper trust boundary enforcement in Language Servers for AWS before version 1.65.0 on all supported platforms may allow a for arbitrary code execution
8.5<1%
CVE-2026-12958
Missing symlink validation in Language Servers for AWS may allow an arbitrary file write outside of the workspace trust boundary
8.5<1%
CVE-2026-30615
A prompt injection vulnerability in Windsurf 1.9544.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a victim system
8.0<1%

From the original article

3 min read at thehackernews.com

 Swati Khandelwal  Jun 26, 2026 AI Security / Vulnerability A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer's cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it.

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