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CVE-2026-18733 - Prompt injection bypasses shell tool consent gate in Strands Agents Tools

Bulletin ID: 2026-072-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/03/2026 13:30 PM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source SDK for building AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the shell tool for executing operating system commands on the agent's host. We identified CVE-2026-18733. The shell tool includes a human consent gate that prompts the operator to approve commands before they run. The tool also exposed a non_interactive parameter in the input schema that the large language model (LLM) could control. A crafted prompt, for example one delivered through untrusted content the agent reads (indirect prompt injection), could set non_interactive to true, which bypasses the consent gate and allows arbitrary operating system commands to execute on the agent's host without operator approval. Impacted versions: < 0.8.0 Please refer to the article below for the most up-to-date and complete information related to this AWS Security Bulletin.

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