Palo Alto Unit42 discovered a vulnerability in the Google Cloud Vertex AI software development kit (SDK) for Python, and responsibly disclosed it to Google. Before Google’s fix, the vulnerability would have allowed an attacker operating entirely from their own Google Cloud project to hijack a victim’s model upload and poison it. By exploiting this flaw in vulnerable versions of the SDK, an attacker can achieve remote code execution (RCE) within a target’s Vertex AI serving infrastructure, with zero initial access to the victim’s project.
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Source: Palo Alto Unit 42
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