AWS Execution Roles Enable Subtle Privilege Escalation In SageMaker And EC2 - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

AWS Execution Roles Enable Subtle Privilege Escalation In SageMaker And EC2 - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

A persistent privilege escalation technique in AWS that allows attackers with limited permissions to execute code under higher-privileged execution roles on EC2 instances and SageMaker notebook instances. First documented by Grzelak in 2016 for EC2, the method exploits modifiable boot-time configurations to inject malicious payloads, bypassing standard IAM controls like PassRole. Recent analysis from Security researcher Daniel Grzelak confirms t…

Privilege escalation with SageMaker and there's more hiding in execution roles

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