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GHSA-27qh-8cxx-2cr5
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Summary
This notification is related to the CloudFront signing utilities in the AWS SDK for PHP, which are used to generate Amazon CloudFront signed URLs and signed cookies. A defense-in-depth enhancement has been implemented to improve handling of special characters, such as double quotes and backslashes, in input values.
Impact
The CloudFront signing utilities build policy documents that define access restrictions for signed URLs and cookies. If an application passes unsanitized input containing special characters to these utilities, the resulting policy document may not reflect the application's intended access restrictions. While the SDK was functioning safely within the requirements of the shared responsibility model, additional safeguards have been added to support secure customer implementations. Applications that already follow AWS security best practices for input validation are not impacted.
Impacted versions: 3.11.7 - 3.371.3
Patches
On 3/3/2026, an enhancement was made to the AWS SDK for PHP version 3.371.4. The enhancement ensures that special characters in input values are correctly handled. It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version.
Workarounds
No workarounds are needed, but customers should ensure that the application is following security best practices:
- Implement proper input validation in application code before passing values to CloudFront signing utilities
- Update to the latest AWS SDK release on a regular basis
- Follow AWS security best practices for SDK configuration
References
For any questions or comments about this advisory, it is recommended to contact AWS Security via the vulnerability reporting page or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
Acknowledgement
The Amazon Inspector Security Research team is thanked for identifying this issue and working through the coordinated process.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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