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DHCP abuse for code exec

Published Fri, Jun 25th, 2021

Platforms

gcp

Summary

Under certain conditions, an attacker can flood DHCP packets to the victim VM, allowing it to impersonate the Metadata server, and grant themselves SSH access.

Affected Services

N/A

Remediation

None required

Tracked CVEs

No tracked CVEs

References

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

Entry Status

Finalized

Disclosure Date

Sat, Sep 26th, 2020

Exploitability Period

-

Known ITW Exploitation

-

Detection Methods

None

Piercing Index Rating

-

Discovered by

Imre Rad