What is IAM (Identity and Access Management) ❓

Would you like to leave your locker open, with valuables inside, while you’re leaving town or going to sleep? Of course not, as doing so is a foolish act and is like sending invitations to the buglers. Similarly, one shouldn’t leave its database and information center open for all. This will lead...

@biconomy/hyphen-contracts (=1.0.4), @bobanetwork/contracts (=0.0.2) +17 more potentially affected by unknown CVE via @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable (>=4.2.0 <=4.3.2)

@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable NPM version =4.2.0, =0.0.1, =0.5.0, =3.4.0, =1.1.2, =1.0.1, =1.1.2, =1.0.0, =0.8.1-pr-brioux-1333.92b26c3a.36, =1.0.5, =2.3.0, =2.0.0, =3.0.0-beta, =3.0.1 and more Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-WMPV-C2JP-J2XG...

Hardware-grade enterprise authentication without hardware: new SIM security solution for IAM

The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands at USD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading cause? Compromised credentials, often caused by human error. Although these findings continue to show an upward trend in the wrong direction, the challenge...

Nutanix: OPEN REDIRECT

Open Redirect Vulnerability Hello , found open redirect in https://stage.test.dev-iam.xi.nutanix.com/api/iam/authn/v1/oidc/logout?postlogoutredirecturi=. Go to https://stage.test.dev-iam.xi.nutanix.com/api/iam/authn/v1/oidc/logout?postlogoutredirecturi=http://evil.com&idtokenhint=test curl -I...

Concrete CMS: SSRF mitigation bypass using DNS Rebind attack

We noticed that the upload functionality contains the ability to upload files from remote server, however there are some mitigations against accessing the AWS Instance Metadata service. We've managed to bypass these mitigations using DNS rebinding and we've managed to fetch the AWS IAM keys when...

Cloud Security Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions

When navigating the complexities of the public cloud, it’s easy to get lost in the endless acronyms, industry jargon, and vendor-specific terms. From K8s to IaC to Shift Left, it can be helpful to have a map to navigate the nuances of this emerging segment of the market. That’s why a few cloud...

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing and Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Hashicorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.7.1 and newer, when configured with the AWS IAM auth method, may be vulnerable to authentication bypass. Fixed in 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4, and 1.5.1...

Security for Amazon Redshift

We’ll show you how to set up basic monitoring of AWS Redshift using their native security features, including how to set up a Redshift instance, creating S3 buckets, and shipping the audit logs to Cloudwatch. Basic security for Amazon Redshift can be accomplished through standard AWS security...

Securely Managing Entitlement of S3 Resources

Here we’ll talk about securely managing entitlements of S3 resources including managing access control to S3 objects and utilizing audit logging to keep track of the usage of shared resources. Amazon’s AWS services allow for accounts to grant access to resources from other accounts on AWS. This...

Red-Shadow - Lightspin AWS IAM Vulnerability Scanner

Scan your AWS IAM Configuration for shadow admins in AWS IAM based on misconfigured deny policies not affecting users in groups discovered by Lightspin's Security Research Team. The tool detects the misconfigurations in the following IAM Objects: Managed Policies Users Inline Policies Groups Inli...

S3-Account-Search - S3 Account Search

This tool lets you find the account id an S3 bucket belongs too. For this to work you need to have at least one of these permissions: Permission to download a known file from the bucket s3:getObject. Permission to list the contents of the bucket s3:ListBucket. Additionally, you will need a role...

Kubernetes: AWS Load Balancer Controller can be used by an attacker to modify rules of any Security Group that they are able to tag

Report Submission Form Summary: The IAM Policy of AWS Load Balancer Controller allows it to modify rules of any SG on the AWS Account. This is legitimately used to manage Security Groups created by the controller when an Ingress resource doesn’t explicit a SG. Annotations can be added to the...

Nebula - Cloud C2 Framework, Which At The Moment Offers Reconnaissance, Enumeration, Exploitation, Post Exploitation On AWS

Nebula is a Cloud and hopefully DevOps Penetration Testing framework. It is build with modules for each provider and each functionality. As of April 2021, it only covers AWS, but is currently an ongoing project and hopefully will continue to grow to test GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, or...

All about the boundaries: The cloud IAM lifecycle approach

The flightpath If your organization has ever thrown up its collective hands in frustration over chasing endless permissions to be verified or been asked to increase the number of identity policies as you scale up further into the cloud, you likely know how quickly this “situation” can lead to...

How to Address the Current Complexity and Chaos of Cloud IAM

Cloudy judgement Combining the separate themes of cloud technology and identity access management IAM might seem like an oxymoron in today’s endlessly scaling environments, but there’s really no going back in the box when it comes to the promise of cloud in driving innovation. The fact is, securi...

Codecov Discloses Supply Chain Compromise

The following blog was co-authored by Curt Barnard and Caitlin Condon. On April 15, 2021, code coverage and testing company Codecov announced a supply chain compromise in which a malicious party gained access to their Bash Uploader script and modified it without authorization, enabling the...

Tenable Nessus Agent 7.2.0 - 8.2.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (TNS-2021-04)

Tenable Nessus Agent is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:tenable:nessusagent";...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

DivvyCloud Adds Support for IAM Analyzer Policy Recommendations

Last week, Amazon Web Services AWS announced an improvement to its IAM Access Analyzer that allows its users to proactively analyze and validate Identity & Access Management IAM policies against more than 100 checks and receive actionable recommendations on improving its security and efficacy. By...

CVE-2019-10200

A flaw was discovered in OpenShift Container Platform 4 where, by default, users with access to create pods also have the ability to schedule workloads on master nodes. Pods with permission to access the host network, running on master nodes, can retrieve security credentials for the master AWS I...