Major Project – Cloud Exposure to Application Compromise

📌 Title

Cloud Exposure to Application Compromise:
Attack Path Discovery and Exploitation Framework

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🧭 Status

🚧 In Progress
(Current phase: architecture design & attack path modeling)

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🔍 Motivation

Modern attacks often begin with cloud exposure, not traditional application vulnerabilities.

Examples include:

• Exposed cloud resources
• Leaked credentials or tokens
• Over-privileged identities
• Weak authorization boundaries

This project focuses on attack path discovery, modeling how attackers move from cloud exposure to application compromise.

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🎯 Objectives

• Identify cloud exposure points
• Validate exploitability in controlled environments
• Chain cloud weaknesses into application-level impact
• Demonstrate realistic attacker behavior
• Produce professional penetration testing reports

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📐 Scope

In Scope

• Cloud exposure discovery
• Web & API penetration testing
• Identity and authorization abuse
• Privilege escalation
• Attack path chaining
• Reporting & remediation guidance

Out of Scope

• Production systems
• Zero-day research
• Malware development
• Persistence mechanisms

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🧠 Methodology

1. Cloud exposure discovery
2. Initial access validation
3. Web & API enumeration
4. Privilege escalation
5. Attack path chaining
6. Reporting & remediation

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🔒 Ethics

All testing is conducted in controlled, non-production environments for academic and educational purposes.