CVE-2021-38112: Amazon Aws Workspaces

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Amazon AWS WorkSpaces client 3.0.10 through 3.1.8 on Windows, argument injection in the workspaces:// URI handler can lead to remote code execution because of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) --gpu-launcher argument. This is fixed in 3.1.9.

Affected products

  • Amazon Aws Workspaces: from 3.0.10, before 3.1.9 (fixed in 3.1.9)

Published 2021-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.