A security researcher has uncovered a critical flaw, dubbed ECScape, allowing a single container in

A security researcher has uncovered a critical flaw, dubbed ECScape, allowing a single container in Amazon ECS to compromise AWS credentials across an entire EC2 instance. This isn’t an exploit but rather a clever misuse of AWS’s built-in mechanisms. Amazon’s response was that this behavior operates as intended. For more information, visit https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/researchers-uncover-ecscape-flaw-in.html.