The most famous attack is the . A former AWS employee exploited an SSRF vulnerability to reach http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/... and retrieved an IAM role with excessive permissions, then exfiltrated 100+ million customer records.
– A community-driven encyclopedia that explains the transition from an attacker’s perspective, showing exactly how IMDSv2 stops classic exploitation techniques. Practical Command Example curl-url-http-3A-2F-2F169.254.169.254-2Flatest-2Fapi-2Ftoken
The command is a fundamental tool for working with cloud metadata services , specifically designed to retrieve an authentication token required to access instance metadata [1]. Purpose of the Command The most famous attack is the
CloudTrail logs do not capture metadata service calls. Instead, use: then exfiltrated 100+ million customer records.
curl -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token: $TOKEN" http://169.254.169 Use code with caution. Why This Matters for Security
curl -X PUT -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds: 21600" \ "https://[PROXY_URL]?url=http%3A%2F%2F169.254.169.254%2Flatest%2Fapi%2Ftoken" Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard