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CVE-2026-58139: DuckDB AWS Extension Security Policy Bypass via load_aws_credentials Procedure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-03 · updated 2026-10-23
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The DuckDB AWS extension for DuckDB contains a security policy bypass vulnerability that allows any database user with SQL execution permissions to extract plaintext AWS credentials by calling the load_aws_credentials function with the redact_secret parameter set to false, circumventing the database-wide allow_unredacted_secrets=false policy. Attackers can invoke this single function to retrieve the underlying AWS credential chain including access_key_id, secret_access_key, session_token, and region in plaintext, which are immediately valid against AWS APIs and particularly impactful in managed environments where pg_duckdb is preloaded and an AWS credential chain such as IMDSv2, IRSA, ECS task role, or EC2 instance role is reachable.

Affected products

• duckdb-aws: all versions

References

• https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-aws/commit/7d04119ee8d3f8836e278f0e8cbf21827ff5338b
• https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-aws/pull/156
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/duckdb-aws-extension-security-policy-bypass-via-load-aws-credentials-procedure

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