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Medium ALAS2-2026-4052 1 CVE

Moderate: awscli security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 2, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-13769: Overly permissive file permissions in AWS CLI before 1.44.78 (v1) and 2.34.29 (v2) on Unix-like systems where the umask has not been configured to restrict file permissions (the default on most systems) may allow other local users on the same host to read credentials written by certain CLI subcommands (aws codeartifact login, aws iam create-virtual-mfa-device, aws deploy register). To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to AWS CLI 1.44.78 (v1) or 2.34.29 (v2) or later.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 awscli 0:1.18.147-1.amzn2.0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2026-13769

    Overly permissive File Permissions in AWS CLI

    Overly permissive file permissions in AWS CLI before 1.44.78 (v1) and 2.34.29 (v2) on Unix-like systems where the umask has not been configured to restrict file permissions (the default on most systems) may allow other local users on the same host to read cre…

    AWS AWS CLI awscli PyPI

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-13769.html