What is CVE-2026-120497?

CVE-2026-120497 is a medium-severity vulnerability in AWS Aidlc-Traceability, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2026-11-02.

How severe is CVE-2026-120497?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

XSS in AWS Aidlc-Traceability

CVE-2026-120497

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the HTML report generator in the aidlc-traceability CLI in AWS AI-DLC Workflows before 2026-07-03 might allow an actor who can modify a project's AI-DLC artifact files to execute arbitrary script in the browser of a user who opens a generated HTML traceability report via crafted artifact titles or descriptions. To remediate this issue, users should remove any local copy of the aidlc-traceability CLI obtained before 2026-07-03, or update it to commit 96cf0ea or later. The CLI was removed from the repository on 2026-07-16.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2026-11-02 · last modified 2026-11-02.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

AWS Aidlc-Traceability

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5 (vendor-advisory)
ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5 (patch)
ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5 (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-120497?: CVE-2026-120497 is a medium-severity vulnerability in AWS Aidlc-Traceability, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2026-11-02.
How severe is CVE-2026-120497?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.