AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover

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Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, it gets worse

Amazon Web Services has fixed a flaw in its open source Cloud Development Kit that, under the right conditions, could allow an attacker to hijack a user's account completely.

Once that happened, the attackers could steal data, or even take over a user's account without them knowing. Since the Prefix is always cdk, the Qualifier is by default hnb659fds, and assets is a constant string in the bucket name, the only variables that change are the Account ID and the Region.in which the default qualifier is used during the bootstrap process. That makes it that much easier to claim another user's CDK staging bucket name, and then perform all the evil deeds detailed in the Bucket Monopoly attack overview.

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