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Wiz: The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship

Arbaaz Jamadar
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Arbaaz Jamadar
Cloud Security & Application Security Engineer · OSCP · AWS Security Specialty · Master’s in Cybersecurity, University of Maryland
Wiz The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship
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Wiz The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship: Split Horizon
Wiz The Ultimate Cloud Security Championship: Split Horizon
Kubernetes CTF writeup: pivoting from a low-privilege bastion into a hidden cluster service by manually joining a Flannel VXLAN overlay network, bypassing pod network isolation, and discovering an internal endpoint via reverse DNS sweeps against CoreDNS.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Happy Birthday
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Happy Birthday
Wiz Cloud Security Championship AWS writeup: bypass loosely configured StringLike resource policies, derive the AWS account ID, enumerate S3 buckets and SNS topics, and exfiltrate data without authenticated credentials.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Trust Issues
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Trust Issues
Wiz Cloud Security Championship CTF writeup: incident response into a supply-chain compromise where a malicious dependency exfiltrates secrets - static code analysis, AI-assisted reversing, and indicator hunting.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Confession Booth
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Confession Booth
Wiz Cloud Security Championship web writeup: race-condition exploitation against a Go-based confessions app to slip a payload past admin-side review and gain admin access.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Game of Pods
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Game of Pods
Wiz Cloud Security Championship Kubernetes writeup: move laterally inside a cluster by minting service account tokens, then abuse nodes/proxy and nodes/status (CVE-2022-3294) to authenticate as kube-apiserver and reach cluster-admin.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: State of Affairs
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: State of Affairs
Wiz Cloud Security Championship IaC writeup: race-condition exploitation against a Terraform cron job to inject a malicious provider, hijack a privileged plan/apply, and exfiltrate a flag from a privileged user’s home directory.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Needle in a Haystack
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Needle in a Haystack
Wiz Cloud Security Championship OSINT writeup: passive subdomain enumeration, DNS recon and supply-chain leak hunting to surface a misconfigured internal API and reach a restricted endpoint.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Breaking the Barriers
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Breaking the Barriers
Wiz Cloud Security Championship Azure writeup: chain Microsoft Graph OAuth client credentials, Entra ID dynamic group rules, and guest invitations to escalate privileges and exfiltrate Azure Blob Storage data.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Contain Me If You Can
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Contain Me If You Can
Wiz Cloud Security Championship container escape writeup: sniff PostgreSQL creds with tcpdump, get RCE via COPY FROM PROGRAM, escalate with sudo NOPASSWD, and break out to the host through /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern.
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Perimeter Leak
Wiz Cloud Security Championship: Perimeter Leak
Wiz Cloud Security Championship AWS writeup: chain Spring Boot Actuator SSRF into IMDSv2 token theft, harvest IAM role credentials, then bypass VPC endpoint restrictions to exfiltrate a private S3 flag.