Disclosed vulnerability
Amazon Q Developer for VS Code interprets invisible Unicode Tag instructions
AIR-2025-0106 AIR record · 2025-08-amazon-q-invisible-unicode
From the supporting source
Amazon Q Developer fails to sanitize invisible Unicode Tag characters.embracethered.com
The record
Disclosed
2025-08-20
Vendor
Amazon Web Services
Product
Amazon Q Developer for VS Code
Risk domain
Access control and permissions › Privilege escalation
Also touches
Data exfiltration channels
System type
Generative model
Who acted
Agent acted — Amazon Q executed invisible Unicode instructions
Attack surface
Coding agent
Autonomy level
Semi-autonomous
Initial vector
Invisible unicode injection
Impact type
Data exfiltration, Remote code execution
Confidence
High
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
- OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
- ASI03 – Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MITRE ATLAS
- AML.T0055 – Unsecured Credentials
- NIST AI RMF
- GOVERN 6.1
- EU AI Act
- Article 13
- ISO/IEC
- TR 24028; 42001; 23894
- AIUC-1
- B. Security
- Scope
- tool misuse
- Mitigation
- Apply least-privilege principle; Regular policy audits.
- Taxonomy
- Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
Blast radius
Amazon Q Developer users (~1M)
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
human code review
Guardrail kinds
Unknown
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Fix shipped
AWS reported resolved 2025-08-08 (GitHub PR #1921); no CVE and no public advisory
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Month of AI Bugs. AWS declined to publish a CVE.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "Amazon Q Developer for VS Code interprets invisible Unicode Tag instructions". AIR, AIR-2025-0106. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2025-0106/ (accessed 2026-10-19).