# CVE-2026-86830: Incorrect privilege assignment in Temporary Elevated Access Management (TEAM) for AWS IAM Identity Center

> Authenticated users can manipulate access requests to gain unintended temporary elevated access to AWS accounts via the TEAM solution.

- **Severity:** High 8.6 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 20 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6x87-mjv8-mgvj

## What is CVE-2026-86830?

CVE-2026-86830 is a high-severity vulnerability in AWS iam-identity-center-team, published on 14 Sep 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Incorrect privilege assignment in Temporary Elevated Access Management (TEAM) for AWS IAM Identity Center solution before version 1.5.1 might allow an authenticated remote user with application-level access to read, approve, modify, or revoke arbitrary access requests, thereby obtaining unintended temporary elevated access to the AWS accounts accessed using the TEAM deployment.

This issue has been addressed in TEAM version 1.5.1 or later. We recommend upgrading to the latest version and ensuring any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Weakness: CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment), CWE-1220 (Insufficient Granularity of Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-86830?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-86830?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-86830 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-86830 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-86830 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-86830 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-86830 is a high-severity vulnerability in AWS iam-identity-center-team, published on 14 Sep 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-86830 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: AWS iam-identity-center-team. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86830/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86830/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86830
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86830
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-86830

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86830/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.