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Amazon Q Developer: Secrets Leaked via DNS and Prompt Injection

The next three posts will cover high severity vulnerabilities in the Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q Developer), which is a very popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. It is vulnerable to prompt injection from untrusted data and its security depends heavily on model behavior. At a high level Amazon Q Developer can leak sensitive information from a developer’s machine,

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Amazon Q Developer: Secrets Leaked via DNS and Prompt Injection
First reported
Aug 18, 2025 19:20 UTC
Last reported
Aug 18, 2025 19:20 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
Record ID
af0671c7a788204cd9b94eb4c67aef4dec7443aa4efe50e5d956b8273350d99f

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Aug 18, 2025 19:20 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC

This record contains metadata and attribution only. It does not host, download, unpack, render, or execute malware samples.

Feed collection status

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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