sandbox-accounts-for-events security misconfiguration leads to budget exceed
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
"Sandbox Accounts for Events" provides multiple, temporary AWS accounts to a number of authenticated users simultaneously via a browser-based GUI. Authenticated users could potentially claim and access empty AWS accounts by sending request payloads to the account API containing non-existent event ids and self-defined budget & duration. This issue only affects cleaned AWS accounts, it is not possible to access AWS accounts in use or existing data/infrastructure. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA sandbox-accounts-for-events (awslabs) Fixed in 1.1.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-50928
References
More Awslabs Sandbox Accounts For Events vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-28041 Sandbox Accounts for Events vulnerable to privilege escalation to read running events data CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
Sources
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