Medium severity · published Jul 15, 2026
CVE-2026-15746
Credential disclosure in Strands Agents Tools elasticsearch_memory tool
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Strands Agents is an open-source Python SDK for building and running AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the elasticsearch_memory tool for agent memory storage. We identified CVE-2026-15746, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) issue in the elasticsearch_memory tool. The tool exposed its connection parameters (es_url, cloud_id, api_key) as fields the large language model (LLM) could control through the tool schema. When a caller omitted the api_key parameter, the tool fell back to the operator's ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY environment variable and sent it to whichever host the LLM specified. A crafted prompt could cause the tool to connect to a threat-actor-controlled server and disclose the operator's Elasticsearch API key in the Authorization header.
We recommend you upgrade to strands-agents-tools version 0.7.0 or later. As a precautionary measure, we recommend all operators rotate their ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY, even if there is no indication the credential was exposed.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ST
strands-agents-tools · Amazon
before 0.7.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15746
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-15746
aws.amazon.com
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-056-aws/
github.com
https://github.com/strands-agents/tools/security/advisories/GHSA-ppcf-fpr3-x46v
pypi.org
https://pypi.org/project/strands-agents-tools/0.7.0/
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