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Asset Key Thief

Asset Key Thief was a Google Cloud privilege escalation vulnerability that enabled principals with the "Cloud Asset Viewer" role (or other roles with the `cloudasset.assets.searchAllResources` permission) on the Cloud Asset Inventory API, at the Project, Folder, or Organization level to view and exfiltrate any user-managed Service Account private key under a project within the same Google Cloud environment that had been created or rotated up to a maximum of 12 hours ago. Access to Service Account private keys enable the full assumption of that Service Account's identity and privileges, which would have given attackers with existing access to a Google Cloud environment a persistent and reliable method of lateral movement and privilege escalation. Google has since fixed this vulnerability, but affected customers must rotate their keys manually.

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Apr 19, 2023 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Apr 19, 2023 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 16, 2026 04:51 UTC
Record ID
6e532f387a9c623e957602be47994e3fa51a8acd3e7b807d3437de8ca934bcc9

Published indicators

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Source observations

intelligence_src_d11443da85ea659d49

Source-provided label
Publisher RSS metadata
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Apr 19, 2023 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 16, 2026 04:51 UTC

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Feed collection status

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 0 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
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