CVE-2025-2598

AWS CDK CLI prints AWS credentials retrieved by custom credential plugins

State: Published
Severity: 5.7 Medium
Published: Mar 21, 2025
Updated: Oct 14, 2025
Reserved: Mar 21, 2025

Description

When the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) Command Line Interface (AWS CDK CLI) is used with a credential plugin which returns an expiration property with the retrieved AWS credentials, the credentials are printed to the console output. To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to version 2.178.2 or later and ensure any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.7 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	AMZN
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	AMZN

Weaknesses

CWE-497 Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cloud Development Kit Command Line InterfaceAWS	2.172.0 to before 2.178.2Affected

References

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-005/vendor-advisory
https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/security/advisories/GHSA-v63m-x9r9-8gqpthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/releases/tag/v2.178.2patch

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