CVE-2026-14904: Aws Res

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) is an open-source solution that enables researchers and engineers to create and manage secure virtual desktops and computing resources on AWS. Improper link resolution before file access issue (CWE-59) in the Auth.GetUserPrivateKey API. An authenticated remote user could read arbitrary files on the cluster-manager EC2 instance by replacing their SSH private key file (~/.ssh/id_rsa) with a symbolic link targeting any file on the host. Because the cluster-manager process runs as root, any file readable by root is exposed, including other users' SSH private keys and application configuration secrets. It's recommended to upgrade to RES version 2026.06.

Affected products

• Aws Res: up to and including 2026.03

Published 2026-07-07. Last modified 2026-07-08.