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title: "CVE-2026-115416: Amazon Athena - Broken Access Control"
description: "Amazon Athena engine version 3 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by incorrect authorization checks in query processing, letting authenticated users read AWS account identifiers and SQL query metadata from other accounts, exploit requires user authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-115416/
---

# CVE-2026-115416 Amazon Athena - Broken Access Control

Amazon Athena engine version 3 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by incorrect authorization checks in query processing, letting authenticated users read AWS account identifiers and SQL query metadata from other accounts, exploit requires user authentication.

CVSS base score 7.7 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115416)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Information Disclosure

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Published

22 October 2026

Updated

23 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-653](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/653.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the fixed version released on October 7, 2026.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115416](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115416)
- [https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-144-aws/](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-144-aws/)

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