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14 hours agoTwo Missing Characters: How a Regex Flaw Exposed AWS GitHub Repos to Supply-Chain Risk
Wiz Security's research team identified that a subset of repositories configured regular expressions for AWS CodeBuild webhook filters intended to limit trusted actor IDs, but these filters were insufficient, allowing a predictably acquired actor ID to gain administrative permissions. The four affected repositories that put the AWS Console supply chain at risk were the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3, the general-purpose cryptographic library aws-lc, amazon-corretto-crypto-provider, and awslabs/open-data-registry, a repository of publicly available datasets accessible from AWS resources.
