{"id":5992,"date":"2025-08-08T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/privilege-escalation-amazon-ecs-iam-hijacking\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:18:36","slug":"privilege-escalation-amazon-ecs-iam-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/privilege-escalation-amazon-ecs-iam-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A software developer discovered a way to abuse an undocumented protocol in Amazon&#8217;s Elastic Container Service to escalate privileges, cross boundaries, and gain access to other cloud resources.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Rob Wright<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cloud-security\/privilege-escalation-amazon-ecs-iam-hijacking\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking A software developer discovered a way to abuse an undocumented protocol in Amazon&#8217;s Elastic Container Service to escalate privileges, cross boundaries, and gain access to other cloud resources. Rob Wright Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}