GCP - Secret Manager Persistence

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Secret Manager

Find more information about Secret Manager in:

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Rotation misuse

An attacker could update the secret to:

  • Stop rotations so the secret won't be modified
  • Make rotations much less often so the secret won't be modified
  • Publish the rotation message to a different pub/sub
  • Modify the rotation code being executed. This happens in a different service, probably in a Cloud Function, so the attacker will need privileged access over the Cloud Function or any other service.

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