cloud-aksk-exploit
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 22, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]:
- Provides command templates for multiple cloud CLI providers (aws, tccli, aliyun) to perform unauthorized environment manipulation.
- Contains specific procedures for establishing persistence by creating administrative backdoor users and secondary access keys.
- Outlines methods for unauthorized privilege escalation through the creation and attachment of unrestricted policies (e.g., AdministratorAccess) to user identities.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]:
- Details procedures for listing and downloading sensitive content from cloud storage buckets such as AWS S3 and Tencent COS.
- Instructs on the extraction of sensitive secrets, including database passwords and API tokens, from the environment variables and configurations of cloud functions (Lambda/SCF).
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]:
- Suggests the installation of external security tools like
enumerate-iamfrom the public PyPI registry. - Automates the download of serverless function source code from dynamically generated URLs provided by the cloud management API.
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