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Cloud Identity Federation

Workload Identity Federation credentials and account impersonation as the escalation path from agent output to project-level control.

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Hidden text in a public bug report walked out with Editor rights on a Google Cloud project

Pillar Security's researcher filed a bug report that carried orders for Google's triage agent, which returned Workload Identity Federation credentials good enough to impersonate a privileged account. Google has since fixed it.

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Cloud Identity Federation — Clarity Today