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Advisory record · GHSA-wmmv-vvg5-993q

Amazon Redshift Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Class Loading

CVSS 9.2 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0060 · 48th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.2: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 May 2026, 13:09 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
com.amazon.redshift:redshift-jdbc42Maven<2.2.22.2.2
Identifiers
GHSA-wmmv-vvg5-993q · CVE-2026-8178
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-470
Tags
Published
14 May 2026
Updated
14 May 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver (Maven com.amazon.redshift:redshift-jdbc42) versions before 2.2.2 can load arbitrary classes when processing certain connection URL parameters. An actor who can influence the JDBC connection URL could execute code in the application's JVM process, with the application's privileges. Upgrade to version 2.2.2.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.2 Critical 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (AMZN)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0060, the 48th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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