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Route table modification to imitate metadata service

Published Mon, Oct 19th, 2020

Platforms

aws

Summary

An attacker with sufficient privileges in AWS to modify the route table and some other EC2 privileges, could pretend to be a metadata server and provide an attacker controlled bootup script to EC2s to move laterally.

Affected Services

N/A

Remediation

None required

Tracked CVEs

No tracked CVEs

References

Contributed by https://github.com/0xdabbad00

Entry Status

Finalized

Disclosure Date

Mon, Oct 19th, 2020

Exploitability Period

-

Known ITW Exploitation

-

Detection Methods

None

Piercing Index Rating

-

Discovered by

Ryan Gerstenkorn