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title: "CVE-2026-119085: Amazon Virtual Engineering Workbench - Template Injection"
description: "Amazon Virtual Engineering Workbench contains a template injection caused by improper neutralization of special elements in the publishing component, letting remote authenticated attackers execute arbitrary code with publishing Lambda's IAM role permissions, exploit requires authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-119085/
---

# CVE-2026-119085 Amazon Virtual Engineering Workbench - Template Injection

Amazon Virtual Engineering Workbench contains a template injection caused by improper neutralization of special elements in the publishing component, letting remote authenticated attackers execute arbitrary code with publishing Lambda's IAM role permissions, exploit requires authentication.

CVSS base score 8.8 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119085)

## Details

Type

Template Injection

Impact

Remote Code Execution, Information Disclosure

CVSS vector

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

Published

2 November 2026

Updated

3 November 2026

Weakness

[CWE-1336](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1336.html)

## Vendor fix

Redeploy from the latest version of awslabs/virtual-engineering-workbench.

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-2026-119085](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119085)
- [https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-162-aws/](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-162-aws/)
- [https://github.com/awslabs/virtual-engineering-workbench/commit/c146486cec41f5b04fae57e9ce1a7fb40e695615](https://github.com/awslabs/virtual-engineering-workbench/commit/c146486cec41f5b04fae57e9ce1a7fb40e695615)

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