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REPORTPUBLIC METADATA

Route table modification to imitate metadata service

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.

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Oct 19, 2020 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Oct 19, 2020 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 15, 2026 16:51 UTC
Record ID
8872c908cdb513bb7901735c78f83434f9d7481541720c35f0478b9f62f6e58b

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
Oct 19, 2020 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 15, 2026 16:51 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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