{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0116",
 "incident_id": "2025-08-aws-kiro-rce",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-08-26",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "AWS Kiro: arbitrary command execution via indirect prompt injection writing agent config files",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "coding_agent",
 "initial_vector": "indirect_prompt_injection_source_code",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "file_write",
  "config_modification",
  "code_execution",
  "mcp_tool_invocation",
  "config_file_write",
  "shell_command_execution"
 ],
 "target_product": "AWS Kiro IDE",
 "target_vendor": "Amazon Web Services",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "remote_code_execution",
  "code_execution"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Kiro developer workstations before v0.1.42",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI05"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "config_poisoning",
   "allowlist_abuse",
   "mcp_injection",
   "indirect_prompt_injection",
   "config_hijack",
   "approval_bypass"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "command approval prompts, bypassed by writing to .vscode/settings.json or .kiro/settings/mcp.json",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "fixed 2025-08-05 in v0.1.42; AWS issued no CVE and no public advisory",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/aws-kiro-aribtrary-command-execution-with-indirect-prompt-injection/",
  "https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "AWS Kiro was vulnerable to arbitrary command execution via indirect prompt injection.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Reported 2025-07-15, the day Kiro launched. Also reported as: 'AWS Kiro: arbitrary code execution via indirect prompt injection'.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Tool & Function Call Extraction / Abuse",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Prompt Injection",
  "Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "Kiro wrote config files and executed arbitrary commands",
 "vector_family": "indirect_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "indirect_prompt_injection_source_code",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "human_approval"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "privilege_escalation",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "confused_deputy"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: privilege_escalation",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI05 (impact=code_exec)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}