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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-4270 EUVD-2026-12474GHSA-2cpp-j2fc-qhp7PYSEC-2026-162

AWS API MCP File Access Restriction Bypass

Published Mar 16, 2026 · Updated Mar 16, 2026 · Assigned by AMZN

Description

Improper Protection of Alternate Path exists in the no-access and workdir feature of the AWS API MCP Server versions >= 0.2.14 and < 1.3.9 on all platforms may allow the bypass of intended file access restriction and expose arbitrary local file contents in the MCP client application context.

To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 1.3.9.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AWS AWS API MCP Server 0.2.14 – < 1.3.9 1.3.9

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI awslabs-aws-api-mcp-server >= 0.2.14, < 1.3.9 1.3.9 GHSA-2cpp-j2fc-qhp7

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