Beyond a Misconfiguration: How IMDS Exploits Lead to Total Cloud Takeover
Beyond a Misconfiguration: How IMDS Exploits Lead to Total Cloud Takeover By CyberDudeBivash • September 2025 Official Sites: cyberdudebivash.com | cyberbivash.blogspot.com Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase via them, CyberDudeBivash may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend high quality cloud security & training providers. Essential Cloud Security & IMDS Protection Resources EDUREKA — Cloud Security, DevSecOps & Cloud Forensics Courses AliExpress WW — Secure Hardware, Identity Keys & Cloud Security Accessories Alibaba WW — Enterprise IAM / Cloud Governance Tools Kaspersky — Cloud Workload & Endpoint Protection The Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) in cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP is a trusted interface that virtual machines use to fetch credentials, configuration, and identity. A misconfiguration in IMDS (for example, e...