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Vulnerabilities in the public cloud. [Research Saturday]

Vulnerabilities in the public cloud. [Research Saturday]

FromCyberWire Daily


Vulnerabilities in the public cloud. [Research Saturday]

FromCyberWire Daily

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Guest Ariel Zelivansky, Senior Manager of Security Research at Palo Alto Networks, joins Dave to discuss Unit 42's work on the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team has identified the first known vulnerability that could enable one user of a public cloud service to break out of their environment and execute code on environments belonging to other users in the same public cloud service. This unprecedented cross-account takeover affected Microsoft's Azure Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform. Researchers named the finding Azurescape because the attack started from a container escape – a technique that enables privilege escalation out of container environments.
The research can be found here:

What You Need to Know About Azurescape

Finding Azurescape – Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances


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Released:
Sep 25, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode