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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

by Karl Gilbert Gupta, Benjamin Caudill
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
11h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Parameters

The first interesting piece of information we will want to inspect is what is stored under "Parameters". Available parameters are defined in the stacks template, then the values are passed in when using that template to create a new stack. The names and values of these parameters are stored along with the associated stack and show up under the "Parameters" key of the DescribeStacks API call response.

We are hoping to find some sensitive information being passed in to parameters, where we could then use it to gain further access to the environment. If best practices are being followed, then we ideally should not be able to find any sensitive information in the values of the parameters for a stack, but we have found that best practices ...

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ISBN: 9781789136722