AWS Bedrock: Add Lambda Tool Hijacking Privilege Escalation (Agent Action Groups)#281
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Summary
Adds a new AWS Bedrock privilege escalation technique based on Lambda-backed agent tool hijacking.
Details
This PR introduces a misconfiguration scenario where a principal with:
lambda:UpdateFunctionCodebedrock:InvokeAgentcan modify a Lambda function used by a Bedrock Agent action group and trigger its execution via the agent.
Relation to Existing Content
This complements the existing Bedrock privilege escalation technique:
bedrock-agentcore:StartCodeInterpreterSession+bedrock-agentcore:InvokeCodeInterpreter)While the existing technique focuses on AgentCore Code Interpreter execution roles, this PR introduces a separate attack surface:
No existing content currently documents this vector.
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