CVE-2026-9291
Bulletin ID: 2026-036-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 05/22/2026 11:15 AM PDT Description: Amazon Braket SDK is an open-source Python library for interacting with the Amazon Braket quantum computing service, including managing hybrid quantum jobs and retrieving job results. We identified CVE-2026-9291, an insecure deserialization issue (CWE-502) in the job results processing component. The SDK's deserialize_values() function trusts the dataFormat field from an untrusted JSON file to control whether pickle.loads() is called on the data payload. A remote authenticated user with S3 write access to the job output bucket can modify the dataFormat field in results.json from PLAINTEXT to pickled_v4 and replace data values with executable payloads, achieving arbitrary code execution on any machine that processes job results. Impacted versions: >= 1.10.0 AND < 1.117.0 Please refer to the article below for the most up-to-date and complete information related to this AWS Security Bulletin.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Insecure deserialization allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code.
- Who is affected
- Authenticated users with S3 write access to the job output bucket in Amazon Braket SDK.
- Urgency
- Remediation is critical as it can lead to remote code execution.
- Action
- Upgrade to the latest version of Amazon Braket SDK.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.38% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 30% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- unknownCVE-2026-9291 - Insecure Deserialization in Amazon Braket SDK Job Results Processingaws · 2026-06-05
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