CVE-2026-5707

HIGH8.8

Command Injection via Virtual Desktop Session Name in AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES)

Published Apr 6, 2026

Modified 1 weeks ago

Details

Unsanitized input in an OS command in the virtual desktop session name handling in AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) version 2025.03 through 2025.12.01 might allow a remote authenticated actor to execute arbitrary commands as root on the virtual desktop host via a crafted session name.

To remediate this issue, users are advised to upgrade to RES version 2026.03 or apply the corresponding mitigation patch to their existing environment.

References

ADVISORY

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-014-aws/

FIX

https://github.com/aws/res/issues/151

WEB

https://github.com/aws/res/releases/tag/2026.03

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5707

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v4.0

8.7