What is the severity of CVE-2023-50928?

CVE-2023-50928 is considered a high severity vulnerability due to the potential for account exploitation and unauthorized access.

How do I fix CVE-2023-50928?

The recommended mitigation for CVE-2023-50928 is to upgrade to version 1.1.0 or later of the Amazon Awslabs Sandbox Accounts for Events.

Who is affected by CVE-2023-50928?

CVE-2023-50928 affects users of the Amazon Awslabs Sandbox Accounts for Events versions prior to 1.1.0.

What can attackers do with CVE-2023-50928?

Attackers exploiting CVE-2023-50928 could potentially claim and access AWS accounts without proper authorization.

Is authentication enough to protect against CVE-2023-50928?

No, simply relying on authentication is not sufficient to protect against CVE-2023-50928, as the vulnerability may still allow unauthorized account claims.

Vulnerability/
CVE-2023-50928

critical

CWE

284

22/12/2023

2/8/2024

CVE-2023-50928: sandbox-accounts-for-events security misconfiguration leads to budget exceed

First published: Fri Dec 22 2023(Updated: )

"Sandbox Accounts for Events" provides multiple, temporary AWS accounts to a number of authenticated users simultaneously via a browser-based GUI. Authenticated users could potentially claim and access empty AWS accounts by sending request payloads to the account API containing non-existent event ids and self-defined budget & duration. This issue only affects cleaned AWS accounts, it is not possible to access AWS accounts in use or existing data/infrastructure. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.0.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Amazon Awslabs Sandbox Accounts For Events	<1.1.0

Remedy

https://github.com/awslabs/sandbox-accounts-for-events/commit/f30a0662f0a28734eb33c5868cccc1c319eb6e79

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2023-50928?
CVE-2023-50928 is considered a high severity vulnerability due to the potential for account exploitation and unauthorized access.
How do I fix CVE-2023-50928?
The recommended mitigation for CVE-2023-50928 is to upgrade to version 1.1.0 or later of the Amazon Awslabs Sandbox Accounts for Events.
Who is affected by CVE-2023-50928?
CVE-2023-50928 affects users of the Amazon Awslabs Sandbox Accounts for Events versions prior to 1.1.0.
What can attackers do with CVE-2023-50928?
Attackers exploiting CVE-2023-50928 could potentially claim and access AWS accounts without proper authorization.
Is authentication enough to protect against CVE-2023-50928?
No, simply relying on authentication is not sufficient to protect against CVE-2023-50928, as the vulnerability may still allow unauthorized account claims.

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