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AWS, Google, and Vercel Agent Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Tools Without Running the Model

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-08-06

Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them.

In several of the attack paths, the model never ran at all, so system prompts, content filters, and model-level guardrails never got a chance to intervene.

The affected products include Amazon

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/aws-google-and-vercel-patch-agent-flaws.html