CVE-2026-5707: Amazon Research And Engineering Studio

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unsanitized input in an OS command in the virtual desktop session name handling in AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) version 2025.03 through 2025.12.01 might allow a remote authenticated actor to execute arbitrary commands as root on the virtual desktop host via a crafted session name. To remediate this issue, users are advised to upgrade to RES version 2026.03 or apply the corresponding mitigation patch to their existing environment.

Affected products

• Amazon Research And Engineering Studio: before 2026.03 (fixed in 2026.03)

Published 2026-04-06. Last modified 2026-07-24.