intelligence_src_d11443da85ea659d49
- Source-provided label
- Publisher RSS metadata
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Mar 17, 2021 00:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 13, 2026 03:38 UTC
Privilege escalation in GCP OS Login
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.
Reference details
- Source category
- research-report
- First reported
- Mar 17, 2021 00:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Mar 17, 2021 00:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 13, 2026 03:38 UTC
- Record ID
eea1a13e4f89c730f7393c6c24ed3123cc86a5b90fcccfa7bd167d4b4e7b982a
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