AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
09-10-2026 21:15 via theregister.com

AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials

Bob, possibly the same Bob whose conversations with Alice draw so much interest from eavesdropping Eve, was browsing a site we'll call TechHub. The site hosts an AI agent served by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Bob asked the agent for help understanding the content of a URL, a credential endpoint – in raw JSON, if you don't mind. The endpoint returned data from the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), which provides metadata about cloud instances and VMs at providers like AWS, Azure, and Google C
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