Amazon AWS SDK for pandas up to 3.16.0 Athena module access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Amazon AWS SDK for pandas up to 3.16.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Athena module. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-118029. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Amazon AWS SDK for pandas up to 3.16.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Athena module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unverified ownership of the default query result location in the Athena module in AWS SDK for pandas (awswrangler) before 3.16.1 might allow remote actors to read Athena query results and tamper with result sets returned to the caller via a pre-created S3 bucket.  To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 3.16.1 or later. Users should also verify that the default Athena result bucket in each account and region is owned by their own account, and set an explicit result location or enforce a workgroup result configuration.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-118029 since 10/27/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.16.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Amazon

Name

• AWS SDK for pandas

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16.0

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• commercial

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