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CVE-2026-85654 - Code injection in the CDK generator in Amazon awslabs.dynamodb-mcp-server

Severity not listed 1 CVE Published Oct 21, 2026 at 9:41 PM UTC

Summary

Bulletin ID: 2026-097-AWS

Scope: AWS

Content Type: Important (requires attention)

Publication Date: 09/04/2026 10:00 AM PDT

Description:

Amazon awslabs.dynamodb-mcp-server is an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI coding assistants to interact with Amazon DynamoDB, including table design, data modeling, and CDK infrastructure generation. We identified CVE-2026-85654, an improper neutralization of special elements used in a template engine in the CDK generator component.

Under certain circumstances, a context-dependent actor could execute arbitrary code on the host that deploys the generated application via crafted table, index, or attribute names in a data model file.

Impacted versions: >= 2.0.10 AND <= 2.1.5

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