CVE-2026-8838criticalCWE-94

Remote Code Execution via eval() Injection in amazon-redshift-python-driver

48Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 9.3epss 0.8%

from disclosure to weapon1 days

Published on NVDMay 18

1st PoC+1d

exploitation probability

0.8%top 47% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

Unsafe use of Python's eval() on server-received data in the vector_in() function in amazon-redshift-python-driver before 2.1.14 allows a rogue server or man-in-the-middle actor to execute arbitrary code on the client. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 2.1.14.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

AWS · Amazon Redshift connector for Python

public PoCs found — 2

githubgithub.com/Sana-404/CVE-2026-8838-Mitigation-and-Detection★ 0 githubgithub.com/Maxime288/CVE-2026-8838-RCE★ 0

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References

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-033-aws/https://github.com/aws/amazon-redshift-python-driver/releases/tag/v2.1.14 https://github.com/aws/amazon-redshift-python-driver/security/advisories/GHSA-29h4-r29x-hchv