Creation of Immutable Text Using String Concatenation Affecting amazon-ecr-credential-helper package, versions <0:0.10.1-3.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-AMAZONECRCREDENTIALHELPER-14430545
  • published17 Dec 2025
  • disclosed29 Oct 2025

Introduced: 29 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-61724  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1046  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 amazon-ecr-credential-helper to version 0:0.10.1-3.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-1271.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream amazon-ecr-credential-helper package and not the amazon-ecr-credential-helper package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Reader.ReadResponse function constructs a response string through repeated string concatenation of lines. When the number of lines in a response is large, this can cause excessive CPU consumption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1