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Exploiting a misconfigured server

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Exploiting a misconfigured server

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- [Instructor] Let's launch cloud goats, cloud breech S3 scenario and take a look at it. Cloud goats.py create cloud breach S3. This will take a while. So we'll come back to this once it's deployed. That's complete. And we can see our start point for testing is an EC2 server IP address. We can start our testing by checking the servers metadata. To do this, we use the curl command to interrogate the server by using the minus H option and the AWS metadata address of 169 254 169 254. Curl HTTP://18.204.21.45/latest/metadata and we use the minus H option with host 169.254.169.254. Okay, here we see the list of metadata items that we can interrogate. Let's go look at the IAM section And use the same command with the IAM folder. We can see that this has returned info and security credentials. Let's have a look at the security credentials. And now we've got to row identifier. So let's see what we can find recorded…

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