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One public-facing AI agent on AWS could read, rewrite, and delete every other agent in the region
Zenity 披露 AgentCore 漏洞链：一个公开 AI Agent 可控制同账户同区域所有 Agent
One public-facing AI agent on AWS could read, rewrite, and delete every other agent in the region
The DecoderZenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The attack exploited an internal AWS interface for temporary cloud credentials that agents could reach without restriction. AWS has since patched the issue and significantly tightened the agents' default permissions.
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