GCVE-110-CLOUD-2021-0028

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published March 17, 2021

GCP provides an OS Login service for managing SSH access to compute instances using IAM roles. An attacker could abuse this feature via LXD, Docker (if available on the target system) and DHCP poisoning of the metadata server to escalate their privileges on a Google Compute Engine VM.

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
GCP	Compute Engine	—	—

References

Privilege escalation in GCP OS Login

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