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| 1 | +# GCP - Apigee Post Exploitation |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +{{#include ../../../banners/hacktricks-training.md}} |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +## Apigee metadata SSRF -> Dataflow cross-tenant pivot |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +A single Apigee tenant project can be abused to reach the Message Processor metadata server, steal its service account, and pivot into a shared Dataflow analytics pipeline that reads/writes cross-tenant buckets. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +### Expose the metadata server through Apigee |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +- Set an Apigee proxy target to `http://169.254.169.254` and request tokens from `/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token` with `Metadata-Flavor: Google`. |
| 12 | +- GCP metadata rejects requests containing `X-Forwarded-For`; Apigee adds it by default. Strip it with `AssignMessage` before proxying: |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +```xml |
| 15 | +<AssignMessage name="strip-xff"> |
| 16 | + <Remove> |
| 17 | + <Headers> |
| 18 | + <Header name="X-Forwarded-For"/> |
| 19 | + </Headers> |
| 20 | + </Remove> |
| 21 | + <IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>true</IgnoreUnresolvedVariables> |
| 22 | +</AssignMessage> |
| 23 | +``` |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +### Enumerate the stolen Apigee service account |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +- The leaked SA (Google-managed under `gcp-sa-apigee`) can be enumerated with tools like [gcpwn](https://github.com/NetSPI/gcpwn) to quickly test permissions. |
| 28 | +- Observed powerful permissions included **Compute disk/snapshot admin**, **GCS read/write across tenant buckets**, and **Pub/Sub topic publish**. Basic discovery: |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +```bash |
| 31 | +gcloud compute disks list --project <tenant-project> |
| 32 | +``` |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +### Snapshot exfiltration for opaque managed services |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +With disk/snapshot rights you can inspect managed runtimes offline even if you cannot log into the tenant project: |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +1. Create a snapshot of a target disk in the tenant project. |
| 39 | +2. Copy/migrate the snapshot to your project. |
| 40 | +3. Recreate a disk from the snapshot and attach it to your VM. |
| 41 | +4. Mount and inspect logs/configs to recover internal bucket names, service accounts, and pipeline options. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +### Dataflow dependency replacement via writable staging bucket |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +- Analytics workers pulled JARs from a GCS staging bucket on startup. Because the Apigee SA had bucket write, download and patch the JAR (e.g., with Recaf) to call `http://169.254.169.254/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token` and steal the **Dataflow worker** token. |
| 46 | +- Dataflow workers lacked internet egress; exfiltrate by writing the token into an attacker-controlled GCS bucket using the in-cluster GCP APIs. |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +### Force malicious JAR execution by abusing autoscaling |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +Existing workers will not reload replaced artifacts. Flood the pipeline input to trigger new workers: |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +```bash |
| 53 | +for i in {1..5000}; do |
| 54 | + gcloud pubsub topics publish apigee-analytics-notifications \ |
| 55 | + --message "flood-$i" --project <tenant-project> |
| 56 | +done |
| 57 | +``` |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +Newly provisioned instances fetch the patched JARs and leak the Dataflow SA token. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +### Cross-tenant bucket design flaw |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +Decompiled Dataflow code showed cache paths like `revenue/edge/<api|mint>/tenant2TenantGroupCacheDir` under a shared metadata bucket, without any tenant-specific component. With the Dataflow token you can read/write: |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +- `tenantToTenantGroup` caches exposing other tenants' project+environment names. |
| 66 | +- `customFields` and `datastores` folders holding per-request analytics (including end-user IPs and plaintext access tokens) across all tenants. |
| 67 | +- Write access implies potential analytics tampering/poisoning. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +## References |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +- [GatewayToHeaven: Finding a Cross-Tenant Vulnerability in GCP's Apigee](https://omeramiad.com/posts/gatewaytoheaven-gcp-cross-tenant-vulnerability/) |
| 72 | +- [AssignMessage policy - header removal](https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/reference/policies/assign-message-policy) |
| 73 | + |
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