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.
Tracked as CVE-2026-12957 (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon’s AI coding assistant handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Wiz
from The Hacker News https://ift.tt/eVpFES6
https://ift.tt/OaSxb6U
