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Common Ground, Wed, Aug 7, 16:30 - Wed, Aug 7, 16:50 CDT
The Cloud Shell feature from cloud service providers offers a convenient way to access resources within the cloud, significantly improving the user experience for both administrators and devel...
Common Ground, Wed, Aug 7, 16:30 - Wed, Aug 7, 16:50 CDT
The Cloud Shell feature from cloud service providers offers a convenient way to access resources within the cloud, significantly improving the user experience for both administrators and developers. However, even though the spawned instance has a short lifespan, granting excessive permissions could still pose security risks to users. This talk reveals an abuse methodology that leverages an unexpected, public-facing port in GCP Cloud Shell discovered during recon. Through manipulation in Linux Netfilter's NAT table, it serves various internally running services such as HTTP, SOCKS, and SSH within the Cloud Shell container to the public. This configuration could be exploited by adversaries to bypass the Google authentication needed in its Web Preview feature to leak data, to deliver malicious content, or to pivot attack traffic through the Google network.
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Hubert Lin
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