CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) is vulnerable due to improper link resolution in the Auth.GetUserPrivateKey API, allowing authenticated remote users to exploit symbolic links to access arbitrary files on the cluster-manager EC2 instance. This vulnerability poses a risk of exposing sensitive data, such as other users' SSH private keys and application configuration secrets, since the cluster-manager process operates with root privileges. Organizations using RES should prioritize upgrading to version 2026.06 to mitigate this risk.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) is an open-source solution that enables researchers and engineers to create and manage secure virtual desktops and computing resources on AWS. Improper link resolution before file access issue (CWE-59) in the Auth.GetUserPrivateKey API. An authenticated remote user could read arbitrary files on the cluster-manager EC2 instance by replacing their SSH private key file (~/.ssh/id_rsa) with a symbolic link targeting any file on the host. Because the cluster-manager process runs as root, any file readable by root is exposed, including other users' SSH private keys and application configuration secrets. It's recommended to upgrade to RES version 2026.06.