CVE-2026-8838: Aws Amazon Redshift Connector For Python

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unsafe use of Python's eval() on server-received data in the vector_in() function in amazon-redshift-python-driver before 2.1.14 allows a rogue server or man-in-the-middle actor to execute arbitrary code on the client. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 2.1.14.

Affected products

• Aws Amazon Redshift Connector For Python: up to and including 2.1.13

Published 2026-05-18. Last modified 2026-07-23.