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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-6912 EUVD-2026-25577

Privilege Escalation via Self-Writable Cognito Custom Attribute in AWS Ops Wheel

Published Apr 24, 2026 · Updated Apr 24, 2026 · Assigned by AMZN

Description

Improperly controlled modification of dynamically-determined object attributes in the Cognito User Pool configuration in AWS Ops Wheel before PR #165 allows remote authenticated users to escalate to deployment admin privileges and manage Cognito user accounts via a crafted UpdateUserAttributes API call that sets the custom:deployment_admin attribute.

To remediate this issue, users should redeploy from the updated repository and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AWS AWS Ops Wheel < 164 164

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