CVE-2026-5708

Published April 6th, 2026

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CVSS v3

8.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

Description

Unsanitized control of user-modifiable attributes in the session creation component in AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) prior to version 2026.03 could allow an authenticated remote user to escalate privileges, assume the virtual desktop host instance profile permissions, and interact with AWS resources and services via a crafted API request. To remediate this issue, users are advised to upgrade to RES version 2026.03 or apply the corresponding mitigation patch to their existing environment.

aws/res

Research and Engineering Studio (RES) is an AWS supported open source product that enables IT administrators to provide an easy-to-use web portal for scientists and engineers to run technical computing workloads on AWS.

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