High 8.8Published Aug 3, 2026

CVE-2026-18733Prompt injection bypasses shell tool consent gate in Strands Agents Tools

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 9:23 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

A prompt injection vulnerability in the shell tool in Amazon Strands Agents Tools before 0.8.0 might allow remote actors to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the agent's host via a crafted prompt that sets the non_interactive parameter to true, bypassing the human consent gate. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 0.8.0.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-1427
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: AMZN
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Aug 4, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

AWS strands-agents-tools aws:strands_agents_tools (from the name)	before 0.8.0	CNA record

References

References

https://pypi.org/project/strands-agents-tools/0.8.0/	release-notes, patch
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-072-aws/	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/strands-agents/tools/security/advisories/GHSA-mqvc-p852-wf8x	release-notes

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