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Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, according to Mindgard. The latest version of the IDE is 1.0.337. "The issue allowed attacker-controlled repository content to influence the Kiro agent and ultimately cause sensitive local information to be transmitted to an external endpoint," Chief Marketing Officer Fergal Glynn said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Kiro Powers goes beyond skills by bundling Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configurations, steering files…

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Aug 27, 2026
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