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CVE-2023-35165

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-35165 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) affecting AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) versions 2.0.0-2.80.0 and @aws-cdk/aws-eks versions 1.57.0-1.202.0. It involves overly permissive trust policies for "CreationRole" and "default MastersRole" created by eks.Cluster and eks.FargateCluster constructs, allowing unauthorized access to create clusters, deploy Kubernetes resources, and execute kubectl commands. The vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.57.0, < 1.202.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:aws_cloud_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, < 2.80.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:aws_cloud_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0090 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: aws-cdk-libFixed in: 2.80.0
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: @aws-cdk/aws-eksFixed in: 1.202.0
github_advisoryworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-rx28-r23p-2qc3medium

AWS CDK EKS overly permissive trust policies

Jun 19, 2023

References

github.com / aws/aws-cdk/issues/25674
Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
github.com / aws/aws-cdk/security/advisories/GHSA-rx28-r23p-2qc3
ExploitMitigationThird Party Advisory