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Recovering Plaintext Passwords from Azure Virtual Machines

Akamai·Daniel Goldberg·6 months ago
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Daniel is a security research expert at Guardicore Labs, where he is responsible for tracking the latest security intelligence, including detailed analysis of hackers' methodologies, for use in creating advanced countermeasures for Guardicore products and services. Daniel has more than 10 years of cybersecurity research experience.

Azure provides an incredible amount of add-on services for its  IaaS  offerings. These services are provided by the Azure Guest Agent through a large collection of plugins such as Chef integration, a Jenkins interface, a diagnostic channel for apps running inside the machine and many more. While researching the Azure Guest Agent, we’ve uncovered several security issues which have all been reported to Microsoft.…

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