CVE-2026-122266 Improper isolation of shared resources in aws-network-policy-agent in Amazon EKS

Medium 6.3 Published Updated
Exploited in the wild
Not known
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2026-122266?

CVE-2026-122266 is a medium-severity vulnerability in AWS amazon-vpc-cni-k8s, published on 4 Nov 2026.

Official description

Improper isolation of shared resources in aws-network-policy-agent in Amazon EKS Network Policy Agent before 1.3.7 (VPC CNI before 1.22.3) might allow an authenticated adjacent user to bypass NetworkPolicy ingress enforcement on co-located pods via eBPF conntrack map poisoning using crafted AF_PACKET frames.

To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to Amazon VPC CNI Managed Add-on v1.22.3 or later (which includes Network Policy Agent v1.3.7).

Weakness: CWE-1189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-122266?

How do I fix CVE-2026-122266?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-122266 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-122266 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-122266 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

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