---
id: CVE-2026-79916
title: MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise
summary: >-
  MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.10.5-lts,
  authenticated workspace members can inject control characters into AWS Bedrock
  access_key_id and secret_access_key fields that _update_aws_credentials writes
  to /r…
severity: critical
cvss: 9.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L'
cwe:
  - CWE-78
vendor: 1Panel-dev
product: MaxKB
affected:
  - MaxKB < 2.10.5-lts
published: '2026-09-21'
updated: '2026-09-22'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-22T16:17:57.193'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79916'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/1Panel-dev/MaxKB/commit/a1e413d196004421ab0953ee0baa13d4ca0fe3c4
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/1Panel-dev/MaxKB/pull/6418'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/1Panel-dev/MaxKB/releases/tag/v2.10.5-lts'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/1Panel-dev/MaxKB/security/advisories/GHSA-2324-7xjr-9qxg
    label: security-advisories@github.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-09-22T14:12:21.692945Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-09-21T20:52:58.297Z'
epss: 0.00446
epssPercentile: 0.36123
---

## Overview

MaxKB is an open-source AI assistant for enterprise. Prior to 2.10.5-lts, authenticated workspace members can inject control characters into AWS Bedrock access_key_id and secret_access_key fields that _update_aws_credentials writes to /root/.aws/credentials without safe parsing. An attacker can append a new AWS profile containing credential_process, then select that profile during a later model-validation request so botocore executes an attacker-controlled command as root. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.10.5-lts.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.