One chatbot prompt could reach an AWS AgentCore region
Daily Cyber News: One chatbot prompt could reach an AWS AgentCore region
A now-patched weakness in AWS Bedrock AgentCore allowed researchers to obtain temporary cloud credentials through a public-facing AI agent. Broad default permissions then let them invoke other agents, read sessions, and reach secrets across the same AWS account and region. AWS changed new deployments to use authenticated metadata access and reduced the permissions included in the default role.
Key context: The important consequence is that a manipulated chatbot could have turned one exposed agent into a route across a much larger cloud environment.
Additional detail: The immediate action is straightforward.
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