{"id":239758,"date":"2026-06-27T03:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/amazon-q-developer-flaw-could-let-malicious-repos-run-code-via-mcp-configs"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:08:58","slug":"amazon-q-developer-flaw-could-let-malicious-repos-run-code-via-mcp-configs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/amazon-q-developer-flaw-could-let-malicious-repos-run-code-via-mcp-configs","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-q-developer-flaw-could-let-malicious-repos-run-code-via-mcp-configs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer\u2019s cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cve.org\/cverecord?id=CVE-2026-12957\">CVE-2026\u201312957<\/a> (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon\u2019s AI coding assistant handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.<\/p>\n<p>Wiz Research, which found and reported it, showed that a single config file dropped in a repo was enough to go from git clone to cloud compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer\u2019s cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it. Tracked as CVE-2026\u201312957 (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon\u2019s AI coding assistant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}