AWS Cloud Development Kit Command Line Interface up to 2.178.1 Credential Plugin information expsure
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability was found in AWS Cloud Development Kit Command Line Interface up to 2.178.1. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Credential Plugin. The manipulation leads to information expsure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-2598. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.
Details
A vulnerability was found in AWS Cloud Development Kit Command Line Interface up to 2.178.1. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Credential Plugin. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information expsure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-497. The product does not properly prevent sensitive system-level information from being accessed by unauthorized actors who do not have the same level of access to the underlying system as the product does. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:
When the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) Command Line Interface (AWS CDK CLI) is used with a credential plugin which returns an expiration property with the retrieved AWS credentials, the credentials are printed to the console output. To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version 2.178.2 or later and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.
It is possible to read the advisory at aws.amazon.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-2598 since 03/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
Upgrading to version 2.178.2 eliminates this vulnerability.
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Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3
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VulDB Temp Score: 3.2
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CNA Base Score: 5.5
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Exploiting
Class: Information expsureCWE: CWE-497
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Cloud Development Kit Command Line Interface 2.178.2
Timeline
03/21/2025 🔍03/21/2025 🔍
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10/15/2025 🔍
Sources
Advisory: AWS-2025-005Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2025-2598 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-2598
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-300599
Entry
Created: 03/21/2025 16:35Updated: 10/15/2025 06:43
Changes: 03/21/2025 16:35 (77), 10/15/2025 06:43 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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