Amazon AWS Ops Wheel up to 163 custom:deployment_admin dynamically-determined object attributes

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Amazon AWS Ops Wheel up to 163. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects the function custom:deployment_admin. The manipulation results in dynamically-determined object attributes. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-6912. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Amazon AWS Ops Wheel up to 163. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function custom:deployment_admin. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a dynamically-determined object attributes vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-915. The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies multiple attributes, properties, or fields that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control which attributes can be modified. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Improperly controlled modification of dynamically-determined object attributes in the Cognito User Pool configuration in AWS Ops Wheel before PR #165 allows remote authenticated users to escalate to deployment admin privileges and manage Cognito user accounts via a crafted UpdateUserAttributes API call that sets the custom:deployment_admin attribute. To remediate this issue, users should redeploy from the updated repository and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-6912 since 04/23/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 164 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Class: Dynamically-determined object attributes
CWE: CWE-915 / CWE-913
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Upgrade: AWS Ops Wheel 164

Timelineinfo

04/23/2026 CVE reserved
04/24/2026 +1 days Advisory disclosed
04/24/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
04/24/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-6912 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-6912
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-359484

Entryinfo

Created: 04/24/2026 19:04
Changes: 04/24/2026 19:04 (75)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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