Authenticated code execution via attacker-controlled pickle deserialization
Published May 22, 2026 · Updated May 22, 2026
Insecure deserialization in Amazon Braket Python SDK before 1.117.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. The deserialize_values() function trusts the dataFormat field in untrusted results.json content and passes attacker-supplied values to pickle.loads(). Exploitation requires S3 write access to the job output bucket, and code runs when a machine processes the modified job results.
Summary
What happened
Insecure deserialization in Amazon Braket Python SDK before 1.117.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. The deserialize_values() function trusts the dataFormat field in untrusted results.json content and passes attacker-supplied values to pickle.loads(). Exploitation requires S3 write access to the job output bucket, and code runs when a machine processes the modified job results.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-9291
- Published
- May 22, 2026
- Updated
- May 22, 2026
- Vendor
- Amazon Web Services
- Product
- Amazon Braket Python SDK
- Classifications
- CWE-502, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 22, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 22, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.10.0 <1.117.0
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