Amazon AWS Amplify CLI up to 12.10.0 improper authentication

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A vulnerability was found in Amazon AWS Amplify CLI up to 12.10.0 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation results in improper authentication. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-28056. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Amazon AWS Amplify CLI up to 12.10.0. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Amazon AWS Amplify CLI before 12.10.1 incorrectly configures the role trust policy of IAM roles associated with Amplify projects. When the Authentication component is removed from an Amplify project, a Condition property is removed but "Effect":"Allow" remains present, and consequently sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity would be available to threat actors with no conditions. Thus, if Amplify CLI had been used to remove the Authentication component from a project built between August 2019 and January 2024, an "assume role" may have occurred, and may have been leveraged to obtain unauthorized access to an organization's AWS resources. NOTE: the problem could only occur if an authorized AWS user removed an Authentication component. (The vulnerability did not give a threat actor the ability to remove an Authentication component.) However, in realistic situations, an authorized AWS user may have removed an Authentication component, e.g., if the objective were to stop using built-in Cognito resources, or move to a completely different identity provider.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-28056 since 03/01/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 12.10.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-1151). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Amazon

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• AWS Amplify CLI

Version

• 12.0
• 12.1
• 12.2
• 12.3
• 12.4
• 12.5
• 12.6
• 12.7
• 12.8
• 12.9
• 12.10.0

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• commercial

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