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AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?

ID: c84fcb6d-dff7-53ec-a7bd-9d0b01af0bba

STIX ID: report--c84fcb6d-dff7-53ec-a7bd-9d0b01af0bba

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2026-05-13

Date Updated: 2026-05-19

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**Executive summary:** Fog Security disclosed an authorization-bypass in Amazon Quick's AI Chat Agent that allowed authenticated users within a Quick account to circumvent administrator-set custom-permission denies and query agents potentially tied to customer data; AWS fixed the flaw rapidly but classified the issue as "severity: none" and issued no customer notification, raising concerns about access-control design and incident communication.

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