CVE-2026-6911 - Vulnerability Analysis

Overview

AWS Ops Wheel contains a broken authentication caused by missing JWT signature verification, letting unauthenticated attackers forge JWT tokens to gain administrative access, exploit requires sending crafted JWT to API Gateway endpoint.

Severity & Score

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can gain full administrative access, including reading, modifying, deleting data, and managing user accounts.

Mitigation

Redeploy from the updated repository and patch any forked or derivative code to incorporate the fixes.

References

• https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-018-aws/
• https://github.com/aws/aws-ops-wheel/pull/164
• https://github.com/aws/aws-ops-wheel/security/advisories/GHSA-v5vr-8w3c-37x2

Related Resources

• Vulnerability Intelligence Dashboard
• Credential Scanner