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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide


AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are a popular storage service used by software companies and organizations to store public as well as sensitive data. However, the implementation of this servic...

To perform validation, you'd have to declare additional policies to the s3:PutObject for your AWS S3 bucket(this step is often neglected as developers aren't aware of it). If a malicious user ever gets the chance to delete or overwrite files, the changes will be permanent and there will be no way of restoring the original data objects (unless a separate backup is made). Nuclei is a powerful template-based scanner that is capable of identifying and testing several permissions and access control lists (ACLs) on AWS S3 buckets using custom templates.

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