{"id":6729,"date":"2021-12-09T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T22:31:54","slug":"what-are-common-methods-of-aws-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/what-are-common-methods-of-aws-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Common Methods of AWS Privilege Escalation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bad actors can take advantage of any system if they know the right techniques. Still, with common configuration issues and other vulnerabilities becoming commonplace in <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/architecture\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS architecture<\/a>, it\u2019s important to understand how bad actors could exploit your environment by understanding the most common AWS privilege escalations used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sonraisecurity.com\/ebook-landing-page-privilege-escalation\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privilege escalation<\/a> is one common practice used by bad actors to gain entry into your most sensitive systems. In this guide, we explore the most recent tactics that bad actors use to escalate from a \u2018low privilege\u2019 account in your <a href=\"https:\/\/sonraisecurity.com\/solutions\/amazon-web-services-aws-and-sonrai-security\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS<\/a> environment up to full administrative permissions, where they can wreak havoc in your environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at &#8211;  <a href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2021\/12\/what-are-common-methods-of-aws-privilege-escalation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Security Boulevard: What Are Common Metho<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2021\/12\/what-are-common-methods-of-aws-privilege-escalation\/\" target=\"_blank\">ds of AWS Privilege Escalation?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad actors can take advantage of any system if they know the right techniques. Still, with common configuration issues and other vulnerabilities becoming commonplace in AWS architecture, it\u2019s important to understand how bad actors could exploit your environment by understanding the most common AWS privilege escalations used. Privilege escalation is one common practice used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[1813],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-2","tag-aws"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png?fit=141%2C124&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1Kx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6730,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions\/6730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}