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

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

"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.

Affected products

• awslabs sandbox-accounts-for-events: before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: awslabs sandbox-accounts-for-events 1.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/awslabs/sandbox-accounts-for-events/commit/f30a0662f0a28734eb33c5868cccc1c319eb6e79
• https://github.com/awslabs/sandbox-accounts-for-events/security/advisories/GHSA-cg8w-7q5v-g32r
• https://github.com/awslabs/sandbox-accounts-for-events/commit/f30a0662f0a28734eb33c5868cccc1c319eb6e79
• https://github.com/awslabs/sandbox-accounts-for-events/security/advisories/GHSA-cg8w-7q5v-g32r

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